Blue Colonial Times Square Transferware Plate Pilgrims Going To Church Historical Staffordshire

Crown Ducal Colonial Times Historical StaffordshireBLUE TRANSFER WARE PLATEGoing to ChurchCirca 1930For consideration is this highly collectible, historical Staffordshire octagon shaped plate depicting a winter scene of 17th century Puritan settlers of New England making their way through the woods to church.  The border is surrounded with several cartouches pertaining to significant times and/or peoples of the U.S. history....The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbour, an American Indian on horseback with bow and arrow, a Pilgrim couple watching the Mayflower return, and Pocahontas saving the life of John Smith.    "The winter scene depicts the 17th century Puritan settlers of New England (later identified specifically as the Pilgrim Fathers) as a small armed group of somberly clad, God-fearing souls making their way from right to left through a snowy, recently cleared wood to a house of worship (a small building visible in the left background). A minister and his wife lead about a half dozen