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Breininger Pottery Hand Painted Redware Spotted Pig Plate - A contemporary redware pottery plate by Breininger Pottery of Robesonia, Pennsylvania. The earthenware plate features a yellow slip-glazed interior hand-painted with a traditional Pennsylvania German folk art scene. The central motif is a brown pig with black spots standing in a green field. The scene is further detailed with a bucket of apples, stylized flowers, a green tree, and a post-and-rail fence under a yellow sky with stylized clouds. The exterior and base are unglazed, showing the natural reddish-brown clay body. The underside features the incised inscription Breininger Pottery, Robesonia, PA, August 1, 2000, Warm Afternoon. It is also signed in black marker Lester Breininger. Diameter: 7.5 inches.