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earthenware oblong portrait plaque with portrait of John Wesley
Earthenware oblong plate with moulded deep integral picture frame. There are two holes in the top border to facilitate hanging on a wall. The subject is John Wesley in a half - length profile facing left in the manner of Henry Eldridge (1769 -1821) portrait (1790). There is shading on either side of Wesley. In each corner there is a 3 narrow fleck leaf design in pink lustre. The relief moulding is decorated with spotted pink lustre and the outer edge is highlighted in copper lustre.
Category: plaque
Production Date: 1835-1845
Produced by: Sunderland (1807-1865) Dixon & Phillips & Co Garrison Pottery
Inscription:
transfer print - arched around Wesley's portrait
The best of all God is with us
Measurements:
side to side
height 203mm
height 203mm
side to side
width 227mm
width 227mm
Object Number: 2001-177
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Wesley Memorial Methodist Church Epworth
St Andrew’s Church
The Museum of Methodism and John Wesley’s House
The New Room, Bristol
Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum
The Methodist Church in Britain
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