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Lot 201
Historical America Plate, Enoch Wood & Sons, Lafayette's Return Visit
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Burslem, England, blue Staffordshire, 1824, the transfer pattern of this plate is the third of three versions of a view of the Cadmus, the ship that brought Lafayette for his revisit to the Americas in 1824; with shell border, the underside with impressed mark "Enoch Wood & Sons. Burslem. Warranted."

1 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.

When Lafayette declined the use of a national vessel for his return visit to the United States, Havre Line put the Cadmus at his disposal.

Underside with hairline; surface with one flake and potting defect; underside discoloration; some minute rim areas with glaze loss.