19th Century Children's Pottery:
Christening Plates

A small selection from our inventory

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      Item Number Item
Description
  CP-0006 For Elisabeth.  This oval plate is like toy plates that were produced in the 18th century.  Vary rare with raised embossed border with a blue outlined rim.   English c. 1780. 

Size:  D  4.5"
    CP-0144 "This is Jack's Birthday". Wonderful and whimsical red transfer. Embossed border.  English c. 1840.

Size:  6 1/4" D

  CP-0359 Miniature toy plate with dogs and embossed border with fish and thistles. English c. 1820.

Size:  3 1/3" D

    CP-0372 An early 19th Century English saucer entitled the, "Swan"

Size:  4" D

    CP-0400 "My Son" A Brightly colored and embossed flower border plate.  The verse reads, "Who taught his Sisters first to ride, Who did the Little Pony guide, And with them evry gift divid. My Son".  English c. 1840.

Size:  7 1/4" D

    CP-0434 "A present for my aunt" An early plate depicting a child's glee after receiving a dolly from her aunt. We all have that favorite aunt.  English c. 1830.

Size:  7 1/2" D

  CP-0457 A child's christening plate named, "Mary Ann".  English c. 1850.

Size:  4 3/4" D

  CP-0458 Vibrate ABC plate titled,  "Bible Pictures. Rebekah at the well".  This plate shows Rebekah giving drink to a stranger. English, Late 19th Century.

Size:  7 1/4" D

CP-0462 Rare and important ABC plate Marked Wedgewood & Co on back. "Frolics of Youth. The Young Artist".  English, Late 19th Century.  (There is small chip in the back rim).

Size:  Late 19th Century

  CP-0463 A very rare "Christmas Day" ABC plate. English c. 1830.

Size:  7" D

  CP-0478 Very Rare pair of Black History plate “Easy Negro” and “Negro Family” with politically incorrect verses in “pigeon” English. Showing one plate of the pair in the photo.  English c. 1840.

Size:  7 1/2" D (Each)

    CP-0503 An unique saying on a child's plate, "He is idle who might be better employed." English c. 1840.

Size: 4 6/8" D

  CP-0530 An ABC plate with Harry. "Harry baiting is his line, for to fish he doth incline". English c. 1860.

Size:  5 1/2" D

    CP-0554 "Frank. See that boy with rosy face."  English c. 1840.

Size:  6 1/2" D

    CP-0571 "The Village Barber".  English c. 1880.

Size:  5 1/2" D

  CP-0604 "A Present for Robert".  The best "Robert" plate in Pratt-type colors.  Rare and early.  English c. 1820.

Size:  6 1/2" D

    CP-0606 "T is the Tulip which Eleanor fair loving scarlet and orange things fitting to wear".  English c. 1850.

Size:  7 1/4" D

    CP-0628 A rare plate (see the cover of "Gifts for Good Children").  "He Returns. The holidays past the school once more, Receives the student as before, to perfect in scholastic-lore. The School-Boy."  English c. 1800.

Size:  7" D

  CP-0627 Child plate "At College. Head boy and each degree gone through, The pupil shews what he can do, For youth a bright example too. The School-Boy!"  English c. 1800.

Size:  7" D

    CP-0633 ABC plate.  Wild animals. "Camel".  English c. 1850.

Size:  8 1/4" D

  CP-0634 "My Sister".  English c. 1840.

Size:  5 1/4" D

    CP-0635 "My Favorite". A child with her favorite cat.  This plate is a good example of it. English c. 1840.

Size:  5 1/4" D

    CP-0641 "The Boat. Who made for me a little boat and did my joy struck-eye denote to see it on the water float. My Grandfather."  English c. 1830.

Size:  3 1/4" D

    CP-0655 Child's plate, "My Gentle Pony".  English c. 1820.

Size:  5" D

  CP-0656 "A Present for Margaret".  English c. 1820.

Size:  5 1/2" D

    CP-0663 "A Present for Henry."  English c. 1840.

Size:  5" D

  CP-0666 Brownhill elephant ABC plate.  English, Late 19th Century.

Size:  7 1/4" D

    CP-0673 Brown transfer "Timothy" ABC Plate. "T is for Timothy, taught in his youth To love and to study the Scriptures of Truth". English c. 1870.

Size:  7" D

    CP-0708 Small unusual plate with an apricot-colored glaze.  “A Present for a Friend".  English c. 1820.

Size:  4 1/2" D

    CP-0712 Childs plate for the American export with ABC border. Public Buildings at Philadelphia.  English c. 1880.

Size: 7 1/4" D

    CP-0719 An amusing plate. "Take your time miss lucy" portraying a monkey painter advising "miss lucy" the cat model to relax for the portrait.  English c. 1870.

Size:  7" D

  CP-0720 Plate. ABC. B, Boat Bat Ball.  English c. 1860.

Size:  6 1/4" D

  CP-0721 "G" child's plate with three bears, "Getting ready for a walk".  English c. 1840.

Size:  5 1/2" D

    CP-0725 Christmas Day Plate.  English c. 1820.

Size:  6 3/4" D

    CP-0726 American export child's plate with eagle border. "Oh look brother look at my dear little NEDDY how good humour'd he seems so quite and steady".  English c. 1840.

Size: 5 1/2" D

  CP-0730 Commerce.  Brownhill potteries salute to Staffordshire potteries.  "The Staffordshire potteries and free trade with all the world".  English c. 1890.

Size: 6 1/4" D

    CP-0752 "For George" plate.  English c. 182.

Size:  3 3/4" D

  CP-0762 Superb embossed border with a green circle Christening plate "MARTHA". English c. 1830.

Size: 6 1/2" D

  CP-0794 Child's Christening Plate, Elizabeth with embossed border. English c. 1830.

Size:  4 1/2" D

  CP-0813 The Phlebotomist, A rare child's plate with an animal embossed border. English c. 1820.

Size:  5 3/4" D

  CP-0823 "Early Sorrow", First encounter with death as our little girl watches her bird perish. The plate has an embossed animal border.  English c. 1830.

Size:  6" D

CP-0829 Beautifully bordered child's "TIME" plate in black transfer with the verse, "Time, rapid flies, it waits for none, Yet gives us often warning, We're here to day tomorrow gone, Out of this world of mourning.  English c. 1830.

Size:  6 3/4" D

  CP-0831 ABC Plate - The Tiger. Wild Animals. English c. 1882.

Size:  6 1/2" D

CP-0833 Raised border ABC Plate entitled, "Keep Within Compass" (see insert).  The plate is with every other alphabet letter in yellow. English c. Late 19th Century.

Size:  6" D

  CP-0834 Childs christening plate, "For James". English c. 1840.

Size: 3 3/4" D

  CP-0836 Green feather-edge child plate, "For my Niece". English c. 1800.

Size:  4 3/16" D

  CP-0837 An octagon plate entitled, "Baker". With Yeast the Baker forms the dough, Keanding in into loaves of bread. When baked, their use we too well know, To need much comment on that head. English c. 1840.

Size: 7" D

  CP-0840 Frolics of Youth ~ "The Young Artist".  A wonderful plate with over-glazed colors and embossed border. English c. 1850.

Size:  7 1/8" D

  CP-0841 Frolics of Youth ~ "Don't I look like Papa". Over-glazed colors and embossed border. A young girl trying to look like her father. English c. 1850

Size:  7 1/8" D

  CP-0843 Frolics of Young ~ "Downfall of China", A political topic of the time. Plate is with over-glazed colors and embossed border.  English c. 1850

Size:  7 1/8" D

  CP-0846 Rare Mary plate with hand sponging and blue / white transfer.  English c. 1840

Size:  5 1/4" D

  CP-0848 A whimsical child's plate. Ostrich carrying a Negro. English c. 1850.

Size:  5 1/8" D

  CP-0857 Blue feathered edged reward plate, "A Present for Edward". English c. 1810.

Size:  5 1/2" D

  CP-0865 "Going to School". This plate has wonderful bold colors depicting a thoughtful young man doing last minute studying. English c. 1820.

Size:  5" D

  CP-0866 "For James" plate. English c. 1830.

Size:  4" D

  CP-0868 Rare “Adam & Eve” creamware child’s plate with colorfully decorated flower border. English c. 1820.

Size:  7" D

CP-0869 A beautiful and special prayer plate with the verse (notice that the letter "f" was used for the letter "s"), "HEAR MY PRAYER" O Lord and confider my defire hearken unto me for thy truth and rightoufnefs fake.  English c. 1820.

Size: 6 1/2" D

CP-0871 Colorfully embossed plate entitled, "FRUGALITY" The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market it depends chiefly on two words INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY. Contentment.  English c. 1840.

\Size:  8" D

  CP-0873 "The First Step". A mother's delight when her baby starts to walk.  The plate has an unusual over-glazed color.  English c. 1840.

Size:  6" D

  CP-0876 ABC Child's Plate, The Graces.  English c. 1830.

Size:  7 1/16" D

  CP-0882 Plate. Industry - Debt. "He that hath a trade hath an estate. At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. Industry pays debts while despair increaseth them". English c. 1840.

Size:  5 1/2" D

  CP-0883 Staffordshire Child's pearlware plate with colorful flowered border- Turkey with chicks.  English c. 1840.

Size:  6 1/2" D

    CP-0887 Child's Christening Plate named, "Eliza" with an embossed border.  English c. 1820.

Size: 6" D

  CP-0890 Creamware Reward child's plate.  A Reward for Innocence and Truth. English c. 1830.

Size:  5 1/2" D

    CP-0896 Flower embossed Child’s Plate, The Young Idea. English, Late 19th Century.

Size:  8" D

  CP-0900 Child Plate with the saying, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."  English c. 1820.

Size:  4 3/4" D

  CP-0902 Child's Pearlware Plate entitle, "My Pretty Pony" with the verse, As morning breaks I rise from bed And by strong inclination led Hasten to see well clean'd and fed".  English c. 1840.

Size:  5 3/4" D

  CP-0908 "Arrival of General McClellan", An embossed ABC Child plate with a red rim.  English, Late 19th Century.

Size:  6" D

  CP-0911 Blue edged child’s plate entitled, “My Father” with the saying, “Who took me in the fields to walk. And listened to my infant talk making me chains of thistle's stalk”.  English c. 1800.

Size:  7 1/4" D

  CP-0912 Child’s Blue edged plate titled “My Daughter” that has the following saying, Pleas'd with her doll as child could be, who did with sweet alacrity put doll to bed and work with me. English c. 1800.

SizeL  4 1/4" D

CP-0915 Wonderful "Lovers Knot" plate.  English c. 1820.

Size:  5 1/2" D

  CP-0919 Embossed border small child's plate, My Bible.  English c. 1820.

Size: 5" D

    CP-0921 The Doctors Hobby”, Rare creamware Child’s Plate with colorful embossed border encircled by a red rim. English c. 1820.

Sioze:  5 1/2" D

  CP-0922 Colorful bordered child's plate with the saying, "A well spent day prepares for sweet repose". English c. 1820.

Size: 5" D

    CP-0925 Creamware Child's moral plate, "My Son if Sinners entice thee consent thou not lest disgrace come upon thee".  English c. 1820.

Size:  5" D

  CP-0933 Franklin's Proverb Plate with a red rim and raised ABC border with the saying, "Keep Thy Shop and Thy Shop will Keep Thee".  English c. 1840.

Size:  5 1/4" D

  CP-0934 Child's ABC Plate with the letter "B" and embossed daisy border. English c. 1830.

Size:  5" D

    CP-0939 "Hannah" Child's christening plate with embossed border.
  CP-0940 Child's miniature christening plate, "John".  English c. 1840.

Size:  2 3/4" D

  CP-0941 Child's christening miniature plate, " Mary ".    English c. 1840.

Size:  2 3/4" D

 

  CP-0955 Embossed ABC border plate with the letter "K" is for Kitten, Kite, Key.  English, mid-10th Century.

Size:  6 1/4" D

    CP-0969 Valentine plate, "Art Though not dear unto my heart Oh search that heart and see And from my bosom tear the part that beats not true to thee".  English c. 1820.

Size:  7" D

    CP-0976 Early blue and white transfer with an embossed border child's plate: "A Mothers Gift".  English c. 1820.

Size:  5 1/4" D

    CP-0977 Early blue and white transfer with an embossed border child's plate: "Foxes are Mischievous".  English c. 1820.

Size:  5 1/4" D

    CP-0979 Early Blue feather edge Child's Plate, "For Attention to Learning".  English c. 1820.

Size: 5 1/2" D

    CP-0980 Child's christenings Plate: "Charlotte".  English c. 1830.

Size: 7" D

 

 

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