Plate, perhaps a dessert plate, stone china, decorated with black transfer-printed, enamelled and iron-lustred 'Vase' design of classical urns and a border of palmettes alternating with cartouches containing trophies; back, impressed IRONSTONE / TGB, painted pattern number ?62 and, on underside of rim, combined pattern name, factory and registered design mark with encoded date of 14th September 1868, made by Thomas G Booth, Church Bank Pottery, Tunstall, Staffordshire, 1868+ (c1876)
the company name Thomas Booth and Son, indicated by the printed mark T.B.& So, was superseded by Thomas G Booth, indicated by the initials TGB, in 1876; the presence here of both suggests a production date on the cusp of the change
the company name Thomas Booth and Son, indicated by the printed mark T.B.& So, was superseded by Thomas G Booth, indicated by the initials TGB, in 1876; the presence here of both suggests a production date on the cusp of the change
