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Culture:English
Title:plate
Date Made:ca. 1855
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glazed, white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze); underglaze transfer printed decoration
Place Made:Great Britian; Great Britain: England; Staffordshire
Accession Number:  HD 55.222.3
Credit Line:Gift of Henry N. Flynt and Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a child's set of four plates decorated with the alphabet around the rim. The plate is transfer printed with the inscription, "Incidents of the War/ The Naval Brigade/ News from Home." This place dates to c. 1855 during the period of the Crimean War, 1853-1856. The Russian Empire lost to an alliance of England, France, Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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