Wood and Challinor's "Corsica" presents a vignette of life in the warm Latin climate, spec...

Wood and Challinor's "Corsica" presents a vignette of life in the warm Latin climate, specifically the (romantic?) interchange between a woman wearing a mantilla and a gallant in court dress.  The setting is an elaborate Mediterranean garden complete with classical ruins, distant Italianate buildings, and still more distant mountain peaks.

To frame this intriguing scene, Wood and Challinor employ a complex combination of bands of  fabric-like pattern totally filling the slightly concave flange of the plate spilling down into the center.  Four reserves, scenic and floral, placed at intervals around the border finish the arrangement. 

By this date mention of the island of Corsica would doubtless bring to mind its most famou...

By this date mention of the island of Corsica would doubtless bring to mind its most famous son, Napoleon. While the association might repel most Englishmen,  the potter may have had in mind export to regions where the former emperor was still admired--think also of C.J. Mason's military themed pattern "Napoleon." National antipathies were sometimes overshadowed by marketing opportunities.