Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer one with petals open toward

one with petals open toward us

I'd use this for coffee as well as tea

just really striking

I'm becoming quite enamored of old wooden toys

very good condition

Mid-Century Scandanavian Pottery Plate with Circling Fish Jacquer Poirer one with petals open towardThis beautiful small pottery plate with two spiraling fish is a bit of a mystery. At the center of the back is incised FREGATTEN which means frigate, or ship, in multiple Scandinavian languages as well as German, I believe. I have found some plates, including a few produced by Royal Copenhagen, on which this word appearsand I understand that in Denmark it is generally used to refer to the Fregatten Jylland, one of the world's largest wooden warships.