Mid-Century Folk Art Rooster Plate | Black & Mustard Gold Transfer | Pennsylvania Dutch Motif | Salad Plate | Farmhouse Decor | American Dinnerware | circa 1950s–1960s

The rooster on this plate is drawn with real confidence — a bold folk art bird in black transfer-print with mustard-gold fill, his exaggerated tail feathers fanning out in a sweep of fine parallel strokes, his body squared and proud. Surrounding him: stylized tulips in the Pennsylvania Dutch vernacular, scroll tendrils, a star-form flower at his feet. The palette is two colors only — black and a warm olive-gold — on a cream ground, and the restraint of it is what makes the design work. The transfer printing is clean and sharp.

This is a salad or bread plate from an American dinnerware set of the 1950s or 1960s, produced during the period when Pennsylvania Dutch and folk art motifs were a fixture in middle-market American kitchenware. The form is standard: shallow rim, smooth cream semi-vitreous body, low foot ring. The base carries no maker's mark — common for pieces sold through chain stores with paper labels that have long since disappeared, or for factory seconds that moved through the same channels unmarked.

Condition: Very good. No chips, no cracks, no crazing. Light surface wear consistent with use and age. Transfer image fully intact with no fading or wear to the print.

Hunter's Notes

Found at a flea market up north in September. The rooster stopped me — the confidence of that transfer print, the way the folk art tulips framed him.

The Archive Record — JLM-250023

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