Spode Rural Scenes Red & Black Bi Color Polychrome Transferware Plate Milkmaid Cows Farm Cottage Hops Border Hard to Find Vintage biscuit barrel It's a beauty

It's a beauty

IRONSTONE  POLYCHROME DARK BROWN TRANSFERWARE TURKEY PLATTER

and is thought to be inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson's  poem "Come into the Garden

The open blooms reveal delicate golden stamens

Dates as early as 1908 up to 1963 when the factory closed

Spode Rural Scenes Red & Black Bi Color Polychrome Transferware Plate Milkmaid Cows Farm Cottage Hops Border Hard to Find Vintage biscuit barrel It's a beautyRed & Black Two Color Polychrome TRANSFERWARE Plate Spode Copeland Duncan Rural Scenes Grazing Cattle at an English Cottage Tudor Farmhouse In 1849, W T Copeland commissioned artist Edward Duncan to paint a series of sepia water colors to inspire a selection of tableware. In the following year Copeland Spode registered the new Rural Scenes pattern. It was produced subsequently without a border design and was called Duncan Scenes. Around 1878 the