This Peacock Feather plate was designed and painted in the 1870s or 1880s, probably by Kate Faulkner, though it has also been attributed to her sister, Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith. It is decorated in blue overglaze on a 10-inch earthenware plate.
The repeating peacock feather pattern is painted in the same blue enamels used on many tiles produced by the Morris firm, and the technique of overglaze decoration on a commercially made blank is comparable. A registration mark for 1873 suggests that the decoration dates from about 1875 or shortly after. As this was the period when Kate Faulkner was most active as a designer-craftswoman, the plate is more likely to be her work than Lucy’s.
