Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Plate Audubon Bird Square Plate #79 Kingbirds in Botanicals basket weave border (Staffordshire region) from 1790-1886

(Staffordshire region) from 1790-1886

This truly stunning example dating to 1835

I have a total of 12 of these with 6 different scenes

cabbage roses

OLDE AVON DALE VINTAGE BROWN ENGLISH TRANSFERWARE SQUARE PLATE

Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Plate Audubon Bird Square Plate #79 Kingbirds in Botanicals basket weave border (Staffordshire region) from 1790-1886For consideration is this square, vintage English transferware plate from Alfred Meakin featuring a pair of Kingbirds in flowering branches 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, he and his