Huge Spode Byron Brown Transferware Round Platter Chop Plate Pet of the Common - Children & Baby Donkey antler decor The theme of the fair

The theme of the fair was technological innovation

75" high with lid in place

Moore & Co of

the woman is holding a mandolin while the young man is playing the flute

it is from one of my all time favorite transferware patterns

Huge Spode Byron Brown Transferware Round Platter Chop Plate Pet of the Common - Children & Baby Donkey antler decor The theme of the fairHUGE 15 EARLY SPODE COPELAND PASTORAL SCENE CHOP PLATE PLATTER From my personal collection, here is one of my favorite transferware designs ever produced on Staffordshire pottery. This is an early platter or chop plate by Spode Copeland in the Byron pattern. The well depicts the engraved artwork of the 1880 painting by J C Horsley entitled The Pet of the Common. It depicts children with a baby donkey. It is bordered with a trellis of grape leaves and