Description:
Underglaze blue transfer-printed plate with Fitzhugh pattern border. The well of the plate is decorated with two medallions arranged side by side. The medallion at left features a bust portrait of George Washington surrounded by the title "Washington President." The medallion at right contains a version of the Great Seal of the United States. Above and below the medallions are decorative groupings of plant material; the grouping at the top contains a cornucopia at center, and the one at the bottom includes a snail shell at center. The plate's reverse is stamped "3 / IH." Examples of these printed plates are very rare. The Transferware Collectors Club Database refers to this pattern as "Washington President" and is pattern number #5537.
Label Text:
Traditionally, the impressed IH mark has been attributed to Joshua Heath (Godden1964, #1991, p. 318) However, recent research in Henrywood (2002), p. 39, and by Roger Pomfret Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter No. 149, p. 13 and Transferware Collectors Club Bulletin Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 4-5, provide many reasons to discount the attribution. The conclusion is that the most likely candidate to have produced the wares marked IH is John Harrison. The plate with cornucopia and shell is illustrated in Friends Of Blue 1998, Case 35 No. 5 and in color, plate 28.
Subjects:
glaze (coating by location); Pottery Link to share this object record:
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