Plate, Boy with Fishing Pole

Item Number: P222
Item Shape:  Dinner Plate
Pattern Name: Boy with Fishing Pole
Date: c. 1811-1817
Dimensions: D 9.75″
Maker:  Dillwyn & Co.
Maker’s Mark: ImpressedDescription:
Earthenware plate,  octagonal indented shape. Morton Nance illustrates this pattern on both a plate and a small jug in The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgraw, 1942, plate XLVIII, A and B, and on p. 102 in his description of the pattern he attributes them both to the firm of Dillwyn & Co. Nance refers to the two figures in the pattern as “one holding an umbrella and the other a whip.” Later, the pattern was recorded as the “Boy with Whip” in Pryce Williams. That name was repeated in subsequent documents, however, the whip is actually a fishing pole and, as such, I have recorded in the TCC Database as   “Boy with Fishing Pole”.
Condition: Very good.