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• Museum number

  2239

• Description

  Five dessert plates from The Shakespeare service with embossed griffins on the border in unglazed bone china and a dotted gold ground. Each plate has a different central emblem and 3 small oval portrait panels of Shakespeare, Tragedy and Comedy in enamel.

• Artist

  Thomas Bott

• Date made

  1853

• Material

  Bone China

• Factory mark

  Kerr & Binns circle mark

• Mark type

  Printed

• Provenance/assession

  Purchased for the museum in 1895.