An antique Georgian Staffordshire Drab Porcelain Bat en grisaille Plate C.1790

An antique Georgian Staffordshire earthenware Drab Porcelain Bat en grisaille Plate C.1790

A scarce antique Staffordshire en grisaille / Bat transfer Plate attributed to the Staffordshire potter Thomas Lakin

This early and scarce plate incised “Drab Porcelain” and was most likely produced by Staffordshire potter Thomas Lakin (1769-1821) and dates from 1790 – 1810. It has a good en grisaille / Bat Transfer scene of a church ruin amongst a landscape with an outer band of applied leaves and gilded border – a very fine Plate. Item number 116 from the Elcombe Collection.

Circa 1790 – 1810

Good Antique Condition with light crazing and light wear to the gilded rim all as expected and mentioned for accuracy

8.25 inches (21cm) dia approx

Thomas Lakin was a very skillful and well-documented English potter working in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but his works are surprisingly uncommon. He died in 1821 and three years later his widow published a book “The Valuable Receipts of the late Mr. Thomas Lakin” section one of which gives “Receipts for superior and common bodies of Porcelain, earthenware…” This attractive piece has the impressed “Drab porcelain” stamp, though it is earthenware that would not be called porcelain today. The British Museum only has two pieces by Thomas Lakin.

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