Dessert plate with Chinoiserie decoration

 A plate of a shallow, large, faience with a slightly cream shade, covered with a grid of decorative glaze cracks, decorated with painting decoration in the Far Eastern type with floral and geometric motifs, and concentrated in the part of the collar and indentation. A detailed drawing of the decoration pattern is printed in purple and hand-painted on the enamel with paints in several colours: rusty red, dark blue, green, and sand-beige. Less used colours are light blue, steel-green, celadon, yellow and gold. This decoration consists of a strip of geometric ornament with a rhombus motif, running just below the edge of the indentation, then there are four large floral and plant compositions - one of them with the motif of a broken bush, arranged on the lip of the plate, close to the strip of ornament. These compositions are separated by leafy semi-rosettes. Gold is found only on the strip that laminates the edge of the collar and on small elements of three flowers in large compositions. The back of the plate is covered under the enamel with gray spots. England, Hanley, nineteenth century.