Pass in the Catskill Mountains 7.5" Dark Blue Plate

Circa 1820s: English pottery firm Enoch Wood and Sons manufactured a highly popular dark blue shell border series with American views produced expressly for the American market to resuscitate trade between Great Britain and the United States after the tumultuous War of 1812. This 7.5" salad plate depicts a New York scene entitled Pass in the Catskill Mountains, which is more often found on a tureen undertray. These small historical Staffordshire plates are difficult to find as not many of them survived, and this example is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs and only typical short, light utensil marks on the face and other normal minor factory firing anomalies.