Item 4575
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this Uncommon 8" Staffordshire Child's Plate with "Early Rising" Moral.  
 
Dating around 1830, this beauty features a Fancy Embossed Rim with a Center Transfer Print of Two Young People Watching an Early Morning Fox Hunt.  The series was called "Flowers That Never Fade" with each plate highlighting a moral virtue.  This one is "Early Rising" and reads, "The sun is up, we'll brush the dew.  To hear the huntsmen's gay halloo, & hark the dog's enliv'ning cry.  Now see! the horsemen gallop by."   
 
Excellent Condition.  A faint line in the glaze only on the back center.  That's it!  No chips, hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  A small dot at 3 o'clock and an 1/8" clay flip on the edge--both in the making (closeup). 
 
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