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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 46551, member: 29&quot;]Aha! Many thanks Don - my plates have no backstamp either, and I suspect are early to mid 19thC, so that makes sense. They&#039;re really well done, and the costumes are that sort of late Regency version of Moorish. My blue and white source books suggest that these Oriental (or Scenic!) designs fell out of favour after about the 1840s. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Lake Ontario pattern does indeed have a similar composition, but is later, I suspect. Interesting, indeed! </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks guys, I shall dig a bit more. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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