Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #18 Bewick's Wren on a Branch salt shaker Measures 6"

Measures 6"

A J Wilkinson / Burslem England

one of the most prolific of majolica manufactures and one of the most highly regarded and collected today

I can't decide which I think it resembles most

Spode Byron

Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #18 Bewick's Wren on a Branch salt shaker Measures 6"For consideration is this gorgeous, square shaped, vintage English transferware plate #168 from Alfred Meakin featuring the Bewick's Wren on a branch from illustrations by John Audubon. Born in Les Cayes, in what is now Haiti, on April 26, 1785, he was an illegitimate son of French plantation owner Captain Jean Audubon and his Creole servant Jeanne Rabin. He was given the name Jean Rabin at birth, however, upon his Mother's death shortly thereafter,