A good Early 19th Century Antique English Victorian Blue and White Transfer Pottery Serving Dish or Platter, printed in a medium blue palette with the perennially popular "Wild Rose" pattern. The bucolic scene here depicted, with Nuneham Park, the seat of Earl Harcourt to the left and a riverside cottage and two punts in the foreground, is based upon an engraving by W. Cooke after a drawing by S. Owen of the village of Nuneham Courtenay, about five miles South East of Oxford, published on 1st February 1811 jointly by Vernon, Hood and Sharpe of Poultry and W. Cooke of 12, York Place, Pentonville. Whilst the pattern is frequently encountered, marked pieces are not so often found and, pleasingly, the reverse of this lovely old platter bears the printed title "Wild Rose" on a riband within a floral cartouche in underglaze blue, together with an impressed whorl and the monogram JR.
Height ~ 34.30 cm. / 13.50 inches ~ Width ~ 43.80 cm. / 17.25 inches ~ Depth ~ 3.00 cm. / 1.18 inches ~ Year ~ Circa 1840
