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Purple with a pointed arch. A scalloped plate printed in deep mulberry: a rose and dahlia bouquet at the well inside a flame-and-teardrop ring, then a wide rim of quatrefoil trellis, Gothic tower cartouches and rococo scroll reserves with flower sprays between. Romantic Staffordshire at full tilt. | SPECS: Approx 9.5 in diameter, scalloped rim. Maker: unmarked base, no maker or origin claimed; est. c.1840-1860 by style. Pattern: unnamed floral centre with Gothic and quatrefoil border. | HISTORY: The 1840s were the decade Pugin made pointed arches, quatrefoils and tracery fashionable on everything from churches to dinner plates, and Staffordshire potters folded the whole vocabulary into their borders. Mulberry was printed in far smaller runs than blue, which is why a full-size plate in this colour gets pulled out of a stack first. | CONDITION: Fine crazing to the well, a small dark speck in the centre of the reverse, light rim wear, a few kiln pin-dots and faint toning on the back. No c