Vintage Advertising English Transferware Cheese Bell The Farmers Arms Poem God Speed the Plough decorative plate The Abbey at Waltham was

The Abbey at Waltham was the last in the country to be dissolved by Henry VIII in 1540

some typical age crazing

Measures: appx 7 5/8"

this unusually beautiful plate has an all over brown transfer Florentine pattern of geometric vines mixed with Victorian styled plumed scrolls and flowers

Vintage Advertising English Transferware Cheese Bell The Farmers Arms Poem God Speed the Plough decorative plate The Abbey at Waltham wasVINTAGE, ENGLISH CHEESE BELL featuring The Farmers Arms Poem, "God Speed The Plough" The poem is printed on one side flanked by sheaths of wheat and scrolls, and reads as follows: God Speed The Plough Let the wealthy and great Dwell in splendour and state I envy them not I declare it I eat my own lamb My own chickens and ham I shear my own fleece and I wear it I have lawns, I have bowers I have fruit, I have flowers The lark is my morning alarmer So