plate / Charles Stewart Parnell

Tea set, English, circa 1888. Composed of thirty-two pieces (DC:1971.21-52), china ware printed with portraits of Charles Stewart Parnell, Dr Croke, Michael Davitt, William O'Brien, John Dillon and W.E. Gladstone, each piece printed with one portrait and having the reverse printed with a harp and painted with shamrocks. Mark 'S & P' (Skelton and Plant, Longton, England), below the Registration Number 100761. Registered on the 15th of May, 1888. DC:1971.40 - plate. Same as DC:1971.28 but with portrait of Charles Stewart Parnell. Circular plate, base ring. Hibernia surrounded by a tied ribbon with the legend 'Erin go Bragh' printed on the centre of the plate. Portrait of Parnell, round tower and wolfhound; and Hibernia on the plate edge, between shamrock sprays. Reg. No. 100761, 'S & P' underneath.;