Very Large Blue StaffordshireTransferware Platter 19th Century
Item History & Price
Condition/issues: In excellent condition consistent with age and usage. – see photos.
Dimensions: Approximately 20 ½” long;15 ¾ “ wide.
Very Large “Castle Rochefort” pattern meat platter by Brameld & Co., c. 1825–1842.
On the reverse it bears the linear impressed Brameld mark and the printed title in a rocky cartouche.
Rochefort is a seaport on the Bay of Biscay at the mouth of th...e River Charente.It was the port from which Napoleon sailed on the "Bellerophon" in1815, en route to his final exile on St. Helena. The castle is first recorded in1155 when it was in the possession of the Montaigu family. Over the years it was besieged several times. In the 17th-18th centuries it was remodeled into a palace by the Count van Rochefort but was subsequently demolished only to be rebuilt as a neo-Gothic Castle in 1906.
The pattern is listed as pattern #4195 in the Transferware Collectors Club database.