Dish, possibly a dessert dish, white earthenware, leaf-shaped with relief-moulded ribbon at one end and decorated with 'Pugin' pattern, a printed and enamelled border of tile-like motifs highlighted with platinum lustre; base, impressed date mark for July 1871, painted pattern number a1799, printed factory mark incorporating pattern name and printed registered design mark with encoded date of 6th May 1872, made by Bates Elliott and Co, Dale Hall Works, Burslem, Staffordshire, 1872+
the impressed date mark indicates an interval of at least ten months between the dish's first firing and its completion; the pattern name, Pugin, refers to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), the influential Victorian architect largely responsible for the revival of the gothic style in building and the decorative arts
the impressed date mark indicates an interval of at least ten months between the dish's first firing and its completion; the pattern name, Pugin, refers to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), the influential Victorian architect largely responsible for the revival of the gothic style in building and the decorative arts
