$504
Five Flow Blue and Transfer-decorated Plates, England, early 19th century, including historic blue transfer-decorated Staffordshire pottery dinner plate and soup plate, Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, 1819-46, the dinner plate depicting "East View of La Grange The Residence of the Marquis LaFayette," (glaze wear), the soup plate depicting "La Grange the Residence of the Marquis Lafayette," with grapevine and floral borders, both with printed title and impressed pottery mark on the bottom, a flow-blue "States" plate with a rayed center with ribbon banner inscribed "DECUS ET TUTAMEN AB ILLO" (a glory and the defense of it), bordered with a chain with fifteen printed states names, (wear), a small plate with Don Quixote scene with printed title on bottom THE MEETING OF SANCHO AND DAPPLE, with floral- and bird-decorated border; together with a saucer with Dr. FRANKLIN'S MAXIM'S transfer design about sloth and lost time, dia. 6 1/2 to 9 1/2 in. Wear to surface with numerous blade scratches to clear overglaze.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-03-14
