Gaye Blake-Roberts, Curator of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, observed on 12/5/1983 that the plate (A4190) and the two similar ones A3142 and A3143 are all Staffordshire of about 1820. She said that Wedgwood and other makers not only sold the blanks to outside decorators but even sold the enamel paints as well. (note from A4190 blue file)

English cream ware plate blank, added floral decoration, painted in Sydney, marked FL, about 1820.

Circular plate with clear glaze and overpainted in the well with a spray of flowers and on the ledge three other sprays with iron-red line inside rim.

Made: 1820

Painted underside in iron red paint: 'FL'

A3142

1820

21 mm

184 mm