Dessert Dish, Buffalo Pattern

Item Number: D 95
Shape Type: Dessert Dish
Pattern Name: Buffalo, also known as Boy on a Buffalo
Date: c. 1795-1800
Dimensions:   W 7.375″
Maker:  Spode
Maker’s Mark: Painted Workman’s Mark, Copeland’s mark WMP5
Description:
A molded pearlware dessert dish printed in blue underglaze with the Buffalo pattern with brown enameling on the rim. Line engraved. The Buffalo pattern is one of the earliest to be transfer-printed on earthenware and was taken from a popular pattern found on Chinese import porcelains.
Condition: Very good condition with only very minor wear to the enameling on the rim.