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Child's Plate

Object/Artifact

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.

2025.22.004

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Knight, John King

1846 - 1853

Fenton

United Kingdom

Staffordshire

England

Western Europe

Europe

John King Knight worked at the Foley Potteries in Fenton

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