Huge Spode Byron Brown Transferware Round Platter Chop Plate Pet of the Common - Children & Baby Donkey antler decor 75" high with lid in

75" high with lid in place

The background encompasses rolling hills and an English castle

it is from one of my all time favorite transferware patterns

The theme of the fair was technological innovation

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

Huge Spode Byron Brown Transferware Round Platter Chop Plate Pet of the Common - Children & Baby Donkey antler decor 75" high with lid inHUGE 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