Underglaze Blue Decorated Pearlware Dessert Plate

Description:

Underglaze Blue Decorated Pearlware Dessert Plate, England, c. 1790-1800, probably Yorkshire, octagonal shape with raised lozenge band to border surrounding a cross-hatch inner rim framing a Chinese figural landscape with house, the robed figure holding a parasol, point to point dia. 7 3/4 in.

Literature: Identical illustrated in Painted in Blue, by Roberts, p. 63, fig. 93.
Estimate $250-350

Two slight stain spots to surface.


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