Description:
Circular jiggered plate composed of a pearlware body; decorated in underglaze transfer printed decoration of a lion in the center medallion ready to spring on his prey. The animals in the other four medallions or cartouches on the rim are goats, Shetland ponies, zebras and deer. These images are interspersed between vases surmouting sunflowers. Printed in underglaze blue on the reverse of the plate, "IHALL/QUADRUPEDS". According to the Transferware Collectors Club Database: "Quadrupeds" by John Hall is a huge dinner service with a different animal in the center of each size and shape. The large border medallions or cartouches frame more animal patterns. According to Tim Holdaway's article, Sources of Design - Animal Patterns pp. 34-37 in True Blue, Hall copied the vast majority of prints from "A Cabinet of Quadrupeds" (1805) by John Church, although some of the prints are from "The General History of Quadrupeds" (1790) by Thomas Bewick and drawings for Aesop's Fables by Samuel Howitt.
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