English Prattware Earthenware Pottery Plate, The Truant after T. Webster troughs circa 1790–1869)

circa 1790–1869)

Copyright 2002

Round plate in the Imari color palate

Note: weighted bases

signed Tiffany Studios tall lamp shade of hexagonal form in gold iridescent glass

English Prattware Earthenware Pottery Plate, The Truant after T. Webster troughs circa 1790–1869)DETAILS An antique plate with polychrome, transferware oak leaf and acorn border around a central scene, with a boy and girl, cowering by the open door to a schoolroom. Inside an elderly lady is helping a little boy learn to read, while a girl and a boy wait on the bench opposite them and a cat sits curled on the doorstep. TITLE The Truant STYLE Victorian PLACE OF ORIGIN England MAKER F. & R. Pratt Company (Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire,