ca 1825 Millennium pattern import plate

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Millennium pattern English ironstone china dinner plate. Unmarked, possibly Davenport; Longport, Stoke-On-Trent, England.

Sold to the American market by “HENDERSON WALTON & Co./ IMPORTERS/ NEW ORLEANS” 14 Canal St.

Neatly printed transfer designs depicting spiritual and possibly Masonic theme. Not clobbered.

9.5”. ca 1835 (the circa date in the forum title is listed as 1825, that is incorrect. My apologies.)



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Re: ca 1825 Millennium pattern import plate

See also;

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?p=83281#post83281

Mason's Arm's jug. Reply # 165

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Re: ca 1825 Millennium pattern import plate

NICE. The Petra Williams "Staffordshire: Romantic Transfer Patterns" book (vol 1) states that this pattern was made by Ralph Stevenson & Son for a fairly limited period, from 1832 to 1835. The design is supposed to illustrate the Biblical prophesy of the Second Coming and Christ ruling 1000 years before the Last Judgement and the Bible in the design on the plate is opened to the relevant passage in Isaiah.

I've seen this pattern in blue, brown, pink, and purple and brown is apparently the most common. Stevenson's only operated from 1810 to 1835, when they went bankrupt, so 1835 is the LAST possible date on your piece. They were based in Cobridge, Staffordshire.

I have one of these plates in purple, only it's in a smaller / luncheon plate size (8 inch). It's got it's Stevenson backmark. (I've got a "thing" for transferware in purple, puce, green and for flow mulberry). It was my Y2K present to myself, being the "Millenium" pattern after all.