Description:
English Staffordshire oval fruit basket or dish decorated with a blue transfer print in the 'Wild Rose' pattern that was used by many English and Scottish potters. The scene is based on a print titled "Nuneham Courtenay, Bridge & Cottage"with the engraving by W. Cooke after a drawing by S. Owen, published on February 1, 1811 jointly by Vernon, Hood & Sharpe of Poultry and W. Cooke of 12 York Place, Pentonville. The transfer print scene, which varies from the print, shows Nuneham Park, the seat of the Earl of Harcourt, with a center building in the background that is thought to be Gothic tower that was planned but never built, sheep on the hill, a rustic bridge leading to the lock-keeper's thatched cottage over stream, and two punts that may represent a ferry across the river. The underside has a transfer printed border of roses. There is a band of interlinked openwork circles around the rim with a loop handles at each end. The numbers "243" are In blue ink on the base. A paper label with the dish reads: "#243 Staffordshire Print bowl and tray open links outlined in blue around top and footed bowl - cottage & lake for border. see Little "Staff Blue" Wood & Caldwell- Dictionary of Blue & White 1780-1880 Printed Pottery A W Coysh & Henrywood Pg. 399-400 identified as Wild Rose - new of Nuneham Courtney by John Heath Burslem. Pattern and border was used by number of potters." During her visit to HD on June 21, 1995, Louise Richardson noted that fragments with this pattern have been excavated at Strawbery Bank, Portsmouth, NH. For the same pattern, see platter (HD 63.135), plate HD 64.290), and stand (HD 91.023).
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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