Plates Collection (page 4)

Sweet acacia, Acacia farnesiana
Sweet acacia or needle bush, Acacia farnesiana. Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L. Reeve, London, 1878

Golden dewdrop, Duranta erecta
Golden dewdrop, pigeon berry or skyflower, Duranta erecta (Duranta plumieri). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured

Yellow oleander, Thevetia nerifolia
Yellow oleander or lucky nut, Thevetia nerifolia (Thevetia nereifolia). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates

Asian pigeonwings, butterfly pea or Darwin pea, Clitoria ternatea. Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L

Young lady of North Holland, Netherlands, 19th century. Her embroidered cap is adorned with large gold plates called willow leaves over a veil and can cost up to 400 florins

Tomb of a Guinean king, guarded by warriors, and decorated with severed heads on spears, offerings, plates and urns. Men sacrificing more victims in the background

Porcelain factory in China, Qing Dynasty. Workers painting dishes by hand while another brings more plates. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Jacques de Chabannes, seigneur de la Palice, French military officer, 1470-1525. He wears a suit of armour with iron-plate tonlets with scarlet coat of arms over the shoulders

Roanoid bakelite switch plates in dark red. Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite finger plates, one in plain brown, the other in marbled brown. Date: 1930s

Collection of silver horseshoes, Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Collection of silver horseshoes at the Bucket of Blood Saloon, Virginia City, Nevada, USA. The shoes were made by Charlie Farrell and shown at the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco in 1894. Date: 1940s

Two women and a man at the seaside, sitting at a table with teacups and plates. Date: circa early 1920s

Comic Christmas card, scene from The Tempest
Comic Christmas card designed by Robert Dudley -- a scene from The Tempest, with Ferdinand lured by Ariel played by a turkey (holding a pudding), and Prospero supervising in the background

Cover design, Two Knapsacks in the Channel Islands, illustrated by Victor Prout. 1897

Room designed for a Rhenish industrialist in a furniture factory. circa 1898

Refreshment Break - bringing the ladies drinks. circa 1898

Staffordshire pottery 1884
Flat presser, making plates. Date: 1884

Place des Gendarmes and French church, Berlin
Gendarmenmarkt market square in Berlin. Date: 1834

Manufacturing Sevres porcelain
A very beautifully shot postcard photograph showing the colouring workshop (preparing the background colours) for Sevres porcelain, particularly the famous Sevres Blue - Sevres Factory, France

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate & soup tureen 1912
Welbeck plated pattern hoat plate, soup tureen and syphon stand. 1912

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate 1912
Luxury patent hot plate. 1912

Brass postal, door handles and letter plates
William N. Froy and Sons, brass door knockers and letterboxes. Date: late 19th century

SEPECAT Jaguar A-04, the fourth pre-production Jaguar on display at the Air and Space Museum on Le Bourget Airport. Of note are the intake splitter plates which were only fitted to prototypes

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Pile of License Plates Date: 1933

Daily Chronicle newspaper 1900
Making curved plates for offset printing, on cylinders. Date: 1900

Photographic studio 1878
Photographer with bellows style camara taking a photograph of a posed victorian woman. Date: 1878

PICNIC HAMPER
Neat and practical is the slogan for a well-ordered picnic hamper. This seasons gagets simplify matters - boiled egg cases and plates with sandwich compartments! Date: 7 June 1935

FALL / BASENJI / EATING
A row of four young Basenjis, eating from plates. Their wrinkled skin around their foreheads is very noticeable as they bend forward. Date: 1940

GLASS 18TH CENTURY 15
GLACES Polishing glass plates Date: 1765

CERAMICS MAKING PLATES 1902
Making plates and saucers at the Britannia Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1902

RAMSDENS MACHINE
Jesse Ramsdens improved machine for generating static electricity using glass plates, the original version of which he had invented in 1768. Date: late 18th century

Potter artist, Stoke on Trent
A skilled potter artist sits holding a plate in a Stoke on Trent pottery workshop. He painted by hand the gold rim around each plate. Pottery believed to be Minton, but unsure Date: 1986

Sandy Balls campers
Two men campers prepare breakfast at the Sandy Balls campsite beside their vintage Austin A40 Devon car. A dog walker and storm clouds in the background. First published in The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Madame Fillioux - Lyon, France - The Queen of Chickens
Madame Fillioux (1865-?) working at her sons (D. Frechin) establishment where she appears to specialise in the sale of wine, asparagus and chickens! 73, Rue Duquesne, Lyon, France

Lunch at the Races - Louis Wain postcard. A dog raids the cats hamper and runs off with the lunchtime duck, whilst a bottle of bubbly is uncorked and the plates set out. Date: 1911

Kyabe, Chad, Africa - Sara Man with enormous lip plates
Kyabe, Moyen-Chari, Chad, Africa - Man of the Sara People with enormous upper and lower lip plates. Date: circa 1920s

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

Middle Ages in Spain. Market scene
Market scene in the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula. From left to right, dealer Muslim, Christian and Hebrew. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

African Woman with huge lip plates from Sarh (formerly Fort Archambault) - the third largest city in Chad, Africa. In Africa

Hyacinthus Orientalis (Hyacinth)
Hyacinthus Orientalis, also known as common hyacinth, garden hyacinth and Dutch hyacinth, drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Coronation street party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
To celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, organised four childrens street parties at various locations around the town

Camping Family 1950S
A happy mother emerges from the tent with a tray of unbreakable plastic plates and cups, surrounded by her loving family in this rather idealistic camping scene! Date: early 1950s

Bruce Bairnsfather Ware by Grimwades
A selection of pottery manufactured by the firm Grimwades of Staffordshire, featuring the designs of Bruce Bairnsfather, the artist whose cartoons featured in The Bystander during World War I

Victorian dinner scene
A dinner scene from 1881 showing ladies and gentlemen around a table dressed in evening attire. The table is lit by a large lamp and as well as the dinner plates

Three cats with pudding on a Christmas card
Three cats with a pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a pudding on a plate, with a sprig of holly on top. circa 1890s

Three dogs with moveable heads on a Christmas card
Three dogs with moveable heads sitting at a dinner table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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