2011 Redware 9" Plate Glazed With Sgraffito Tulips and Heart Breininger Pottery
Description: A very nice 9" fairly flat glazed and sgraffito decorated plate. The plate which has a slightly flat base has rounded sides which flare out to a slightly coggled rim. The plate is decorated with a beautiful and very colorful sgraffito design showing several tulip flowers rising and surrounding a stylized design of what we believe is a heart with some sort of tree rising from its center, possibly a pine tree? The plate has four tulips curving up then sideways with one curving down and two having semicircular shapes on top. Just a great looking and unusual design on a yellow background with green splotches as highlights all along the edge of the plate and throughout the design. There are semi circles at 12,, 3 and 9 O'clock along the edge, which we are not certain what they represent. This plate is rather lighter than you would expect from a Breininger 9" plate and is more delicate than usual. The plate was made at the Breininger pottery in Robesonia, PA. This plate has what