Plate

Region Staffordshire (English, founded c. 1700)

Mediumearthenware with brown transfer print

Dimensions10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Nelda C. Stark, 1981

Object number41.35.82

ClassificationsFood Services

DescriptionCircular shape; scalloped rim; crackled white ground; all over brown dot pattern; PEACE ON EARTH above a standing male figure with animals above a panel with kneeling monk praying; script lettering which reads: Give us this day our daily Bread; zigzag border around center design; an eye above a book at top rim; wheat sheaves, fruit and foliage border at rim.

ProvenanceProbably W.H. Stark [1851-1936] and Miriam Lutcher Stark [Mrs. W.H. Stark, 1859-1936]; by inheritance to their son H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; by inheritance to his wife Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; gifted March 5, 1981 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to The W.H. Stark House

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