Serving Dish Decorated with the City of Canterbury Pattern
| Description: |
Canterbury is famous for its large Cathedral, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170. Thousands of pilgrims traveled to visit Saint Thomas Beckets shrine in the Cathedral. Geoffrey Chaucer based his Canterbury Tales on a group of these pilgrims. The images on this dish depict the Cathedral, scenes from the city, and people and cows surrounded by a floral border. Covered dishes were valuable because they kept vegetables warm whilst on the table, and were more expensive to purchase than an uncovered dish. This dish was tediously repaired by carefully inserting a metal staple to hold the pieces together. The china mark is: Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem with an eagle in center. City of Canterbury |
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| Created By: |
Enoch Wood & Sons |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/CPTransware/id/371 |
| Collection: |
Conner Prairie Transferware |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
No Copyright – United States |
| Subjects: |
Transfer-printing Pottery, English Ceramics Tableware Blue and white transfer ware |
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