A Fine Pair of English Creamware Soup Plates decorated with Birds, Melbourne Pottery, Derbyshire, Circa 1775. A fine pair of creamware soup plates decorated with a black printed design of peacocks, a pattern known as Liverpool Birds, in the central well and with black highlights to the raised moulded feathered rim. Diameter: 9 1/2 inches Reference: English Transfer-Printed Pottery & Porcelain: A History of Over-Glaze Printing, Williams-Wood, Cyril, page 186 & 189, illustration 115, for a plate with identical moulded form and border decoration.
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