About this objectDella Robbia circular plaque/platter red earthenware, decorated in the centre dished portion with a sgraffito tree decorated mainly in brown and red, around this a bowl with dots, and on the rim a wavy stem with 4 sgraffito leaves springing from it at the inside and 4 on the outside, the whole decorated with white and yellow painted slips (and red?), blue, green, brown and clear glazes, whole warped and with firing cracks and with glazes (especially blue) having run
MakerDella Robbia Pottery (active 1894-1906)
Maker Rolemanufacturer
MakerRathbone, Harold Steward (1858-1929)
Maker Roledesigner
Medium and Materialsearthenware
Place MadeBirkenhead, Merseyside
Inscription and Marksmark
D R P M
Method: sgraffito
Position: base
