------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE XX] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _FLAT WARE OF THE EARLY PERIOD_ 1835-1849 The author believes there were made during the first period many large dishes for table use to match the cup plates. These are necessarily rare as such objects were more expensive and more liable to breakage. To illustrate we have given specimens the additional designation of C when there is a cup plate of corresponding design and have affixed the measurements. The following dishes are rare and have in every instance been collected by the author from their original sources. 1. Washington, 6 inch plate—C—inscription. “George Washington” spelled backwards. A. Same without head medallion center—See No. 13. 2. Heart border plate, N. E. G., 7 inch—C. A. Compote on stand. Not illustrated. 3. Oblong dish with large lyres in four comers 9 inches—C. 4. Heart border, deep dish, N. E. G., 7½ inches—C. 5. Octagon dish, large American eagle and 13 stars in center—6 inch—rare—C. A. 8 inch dish same—rare. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE XXI] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Octagon dish, 9 inch, bee hives in conventional center design with bees, often called “strawberry pattern” but upon examination the bees and bee hives are very distinct. This plate, 10 inch, was very popular and since the furor for collecting pressed glass numbers have come to light. It represents very beautiful designing and was in all likelihood sold as a cake plate. There are four large stars with four thistles around the bee hives in the center design. 7. Octagon dish, 7 inch, C, with the ship “Constitution” in the center and the word “Union” below, typifying a union sentiment against the junking of “old ironsides.” One of the rarest pieces of early Sandwich glass in existence. 8. Octagon Dish, 7 inch, C, Pennsylvania Steamboat in center. Companion piece to No. 7, very rare. All the above large dishes match cup plates and must have been made for the most fastidious housewives of the period with that particular object in view. 9. Round plate, 8 inch, peacock feather border, three thistles and beautifully feathered scrolls in center. 10. Round deep dish, 8 inch, border of scrolls and twelve thistles. Center twenty rope circles with six pointed flowers two thistles on back ground and fine stippling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: PLATE XXII] ------------------------------------------------------------------------