Outlets 1850 Antique English Prattware Earthenware Pottery Plate, The Truant after T. Webster

DETAILS
Polychrome transferware oak leaf and acorn border around a central scene, with a boy and girl, cowering by the open door to a schoolroom. Inside an elderly lady is helping a little boy learn to read, while outlets a girl and a boy wait on the bench opposite them and a cat sits curled on the doorstep.

TITLE
The Truant

STYLE
Victorian

PLACE OF ORIGIN
England

MAKER
F. & R. Pratt Company (Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, 1818-circa 1920).