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This transfer-printed earthenware soup plate was made by R.A. Kidston & Company of the Verreville Pottery in Glasgow. It dates from around 1840.

The pattern, which is called 'PERUVIAN HUNTERS', was also produced by other potteries. The centre shows a hunter with one foot on the body of a deer. He holds a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. The plate has a slightly scalloped edge.

Robert Kidston helped run the Verreville Pottery at Finnieston on the Clyde from 1827. He took over as sole owner in 1838. Robert Cochran became his partner in 1845 and two years later Cochran took over the company as Robert Cochran & Co.

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• Online ID: 000-100-103-886-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.MEK 577
• Date: Around 1840
  c. 1840
  
• Material: Inscription: PERUVIAN / HUNTERS; R.A.K. & Co
  
• Dimensions: 40 mm H x 140 mm D (base) x 260 mm D (rim)
  
• What:
• Subject: Post-medieval pottery and porcelain (NMAS Classification)
  
• Who: R.A. Kidston and Co., Verreville, Glasgow (Maker)
  
• Where: Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
  
• Event:
• Description: Circular soup plate of blue and white transfer print with a slightly scalloped edge, with a circular scene in the centre of a hunter, by R.A. Kidston and Co. of Verreville, Glasgow, c. 1840
  
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