English Prattware Earthenware Pottery Plate, The Truant after T. Webster troughs (1) Width 12

(1) Width 12

circa 1790–1869)

Copyright 2002

Pattern: Louis XV (1891)

5 Height 31 inches

English Prattware Earthenware Pottery Plate, The Truant after T. Webster troughs (1) Width 12DETAILS An antique plate with polychrome, transferware oak leaf and acorn border around a central scene, with a boy and girl, cowering by the open door to a schoolroom. Inside an elderly lady is helping a little boy learn to read, while a girl and a boy wait on the bench opposite them and a cat sits curled on the doorstep. TITLE The Truant STYLE Victorian PLACE OF ORIGIN England MAKER F. & R. Pratt Company (Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire,