Copeland Birbeck Signed Plate

This is a really nice octagonal plate made by Copeland Spode in the mid to late 19th century. It is superbly hand painted with a nice landscape scene covering the entire center including mountains, trees, buildings, a bridge and some people. It was painted by William Birbeck who was a contemporary of the mroe famous CF Huerten. He was just as talented I think but did mainly landscape scenes instead of flowers. The rim has a nice pink ground color to it with gold trim around the edge of the well and a gilded wavy edge of the plate. The scene is signed W. Birbeck in the bottom right corner. The plate is in decent condition with a stain to the pink ground on the left side as shown and a hairline crack from the top left corner area about 1.75 inches inward. Crazing throughout and a flat chip to the udnerside of one of the wavy edge pieces. It displays nicely and is worthy of having but it's a bummer not being in better condition. It is marked with the greenish blue fancy monogram mark with Copeland underneath used from 1851 until 1885 as well as some impressed marks - A over 79, a letter S and COPELAND. In red letters the name of the scene on the front - Cintra. Contra is a town in Portugal with those amazing Mountains! The piece is 0.75 inches tall and 8.75 inches in diameter at the widest point. Please email me for more information or other pictures.