Maker: Cauldon  Pattern: Native

An attractive plate with white gadrooned rim and moulded side handles. Wide floral border surrounds a lovely rural scene.
Royal Cauldon produced their Native pattern in the 1930s. It is the same design as Native made by W Adams of Stoke in the 1820s and it seems that F and R Pratt of Fenton, Staffordshire acquired the printing plates from the Adams factory at some point and re-introduced the pattern as Pratts Native Scenery about 1880 and produced it upto about 1920. Cauldon acquired Pratts in the 1920s and the design became Native again.
The scene is believed to depict Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsoby known as the Ladies of Llangollen, who lived together in north Wales from 1790 to 1831.
Discrete hairline to the rim of the plate, noticeable really only from the back.
Blue printed backstamp a crown over Royal Cauldon, England, Est 1774, "Native"

Dimensions: 25 cm x 23 cm / 9.75 ins x 9 ins