During the eighteenth century, illustrations from Aesop’s Fables were commonly used as decoration on a variety of ceramic types. There were many publications containing engravings of the fables, and these were all used as design sources. The scene on this rare salt-glazed fable plate is “The Raven and the Swan.”
- Titles Plate with scene from "The Raven and the Swan" (Descriptive)
- Artist Possibly decorated in Liverpool or Birmingham,, England / Staffordshire, England
- Medium salt-glazed stoneware with overglaze enamel color
- Dimensions 7 1/2 in. diameter (19.1 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase, 2005.3.2
- Work Type plate
- Classification Containers
- On View
- Signature none
- Marks none
- Provenance Ex collection Bernard and Judith Newman, sold Sotheby's New York Important Americana sale (January 20, 21, and 23, 2005), lot 219