Printed Whiteware Plate Rim

A light blue transfer printed whiteware rim sherd from a flatware vessel. The vessel features the "Florentine" pattern likely manufactured by John & Jos Mayer Thomas of Burslem, Staffordshire between 1842 and 1855, or by one of their successors Mayer Brothers & Elliot (active 1855–1858), Mayer & Elliot (active 1858–1861), and Liddle, Elliot & Son (active 1862–1869). This motif that became popular among English manufacturers with at least fourteen different firms making some version of a "Florentine" pattern. The gently scalloped rim of this vessel uses a floral and botanical design with picture medallions, showing a turreted castle in a lakeside landscape.

• Object number

  762.43

• Date made

  1843 - 1869

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Blue

• Animals/objects

  Plate

• Patterns

  Scalloped

  Florentine

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Tableware

• Material

  Refined Earthenware

• Context

  Stadt Huys Block 554 - 762

• Forms

  Rim

• Ware types

  Whiteware

• Techniques

  Press Molded