Antique Alfred Meakin Medway Decor All Blue Dinner Plate circa 1897 james california poppy embroidered cloths are a great

embroidered cloths are a great place to start

Mary Land (from the introduction)

It's fun to imagine what types of food might have been presented at the table on this pretty wonder of a plate

brick and pale mustard

these same teacups are greeting similar

Antique Alfred Meakin Medway Decor All Blue Dinner Plate circa 1897 james california poppy embroidered cloths are a greatNature gives to every time and season, some beauties of its own Charles Dickens {HISTORY} Created in 1897, this antique Alfred Meakin dinner plate hails from Tunstall, England. Decorated in the Medway Blue pattern consisting of flowering tree branches, butterflies and a decorative inner band with geometric flowers, this is one of the prettiest antique dinner plates we have ever seen. Hard to find, in single dish form, this beauty is a bit of a rarity