Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #18 Bewick's Wren on a Branch salt shaker strawberries

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He later partnered with Thomas Wolfe of Stoke and then acquired his own pottery at Longport in 1794 and manufactured earthenware

Condition is great with a few small dents and some typical  tarnish

Measures 6"

A J Wilkinson / Burslem England

Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #18 Bewick's Wren on a Branch salt shaker strawberriesFor consideration is this gorgeous, square shaped, vintage English transferware plate #168 from Alfred Meakin featuring the Bewick's Wren on a branch from illustrations by John Audubon. Born in Les Cayes, in what is now Haiti, on April 26, 1785, he was an illegitimate son of French plantation owner Captain Jean Audubon and his Creole servant Jeanne Rabin. He was given the name Jean Rabin at birth, however, upon his Mother's death shortly thereafter,