Dinner plate, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with underglaze blue printed 'Canova' pattern showing a bird on a post with daisies; back, impressed and printed factory marks with pattern name, printed export mark and impressed registered design mark with encoded date of 2nd December 1897, made by T C Brown-Westhead, Moore and Co, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1879+
the 'copyright depose' mark indicates item was made for the French market
it is unclear why this depiction of, perhaps, some kind of nuthatch, should be named after the 18th-19th century Italian sculptor
the 'copyright depose' mark indicates item was made for the French market
it is unclear why this depiction of, perhaps, some kind of nuthatch, should be named after the 18th-19th century Italian sculptor
