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Maker(s):A. E. Gray and Company (attributed)
Culture:English
Title:plaque: La Fayette
Date Made:ca. 1913-1957
Type:Household Accessory
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed cream-colored earthenware (creamware) with black overglaze enamel
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire; Hanley and Stoke
Measurements:overall: 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 6 in.; .635 x 13.97 x 15.24 cm
Accession Number:  HD 57.199.1
Credit Line:Gift of John B. Morris, Jr.
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of two oval English creamware plaques decorated with black transfer prints, this one of Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), which is inscribed, "FAYETTE / THE NATION'S GUEST." A. E. Gray and Company operated in Hanley, England, from 1913 through 1934, when they moved production to Stoke-on-Trent. This operation apparently continued until the 1960s, producing a coarse earthenware decorated with a pseudo-Sunderland splash luster and using black transfer prints such as "The Shipwright's Arms" and the "Constitution" and "Java." They also may have produced these plaques - made of heavy earthenware with crude transfer prints. These plaques may have been produced as historical reproductions, but the lack of appropriate marks made them deceive buyers into thinking that they were made in the early 19th century. Ex. Coll. John B. Morris A similar Gray's Pottery jug with this same decoration with Washington on the reverse is known with pink splash luster (see file).

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