Child's Plate

Name/Title

Child's Plate

Entry/Object ID

2025.22.004

Description

One transferware child's plate with hand painted border. Soft paste pottery. Green transfer in center pictures a family standing outside their house with a horse and cart. It reads "I never saw an oft removed tree, Nor yet an oft remov'd family, That throve so well as those that settled be." Hand painted border has flowers of pink, blue, and yellow3, with green leaves. Pink painted along rim.

Collection

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Made/Created

Manufacturer

Knight, John King

Date made

1846 - 1853

Place

Location

Fenton, United Kingdom

County

Staffordshire

Country

England

Region

Western Europe

Continent

Europe

Notes

John King Knight worked at the Foley Potteries in Fenton

Dimensions

Diameter

6 in