This little pearlware motto plate fairly sings with its message, "Love and live Happy."&nb...
This little pearlware motto plate fairly sings with its message, "Love and live Happy." The simple directive is illustrated with images of equally simple childhood pleasures, a boy with his hoop and a girl petting her cat.
The decoration on the lightweight body is executed in a reddish brown transfer enhanced with quick strokes of red and green enamel. Framing the motto, the flange is filled with a molded pattern of vines and flowers -- overlaid with a second pattern of leaves and tendrils in red and green enamel. A stripe of deep red finishes the edge.