made in Glasgow
This transfer-printed earthenware dinner plate was made by John Thomson of Annfield Pottery in Glasgow's Gallowgate. The pattern is called 'Oxford' and the plate dates from the 1870s or 1880s.
Dinner plate with Oxford pattern, by John Thompson
By the middle of the 19th century, the area of Glasgow and the Clyde basin was undoubtedly the heartland of the Scottish pottery industry, with several big firms like J & M P Bell. Annfield Pottery operated from about 1816 to 1887.
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