Early Blue and White - Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views'

Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views' Pearlware Dinner Plate c1820

Titled 'View in Palma' this superb Don Pottery plate is printed in medium blue and has the lovely series border of flowers and leaves with two distinctive putti holding garlands. For more details visit Premier Antiques

Blue and White Transfer Ware - Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views'

Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views' c1820

A rare Don Pottery dinner plate from the 'Named Italian Views' series, showing the 'Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli'. When first excavated in the 18th century, the discovery of a statue of Serapis led to the building being misidentified as the Temple of Serapis until it was later discovered to be the market building (Macellum) of the Roman settlement of Puteoli. For more details of this superb plate see Premier Antiques

Early Blue and White - Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views'

Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views' Pearlware Dinner Plate c1820

A fine dinner plate with the titled scene 'Terrace of the Naval Amphitheatre at Taorminum' - a rare one to find in this Don Pottery 'Named Italian Views' series. For more details see Premier Antiques