A large Wall decorative charger depicting a lakeside scene with a mountainous backdrop. The scene is handpainted on transfer a technique used to make handpainted porcelain more affordable. The rim is highly decorated with gilt featuring scarabs, trailing flowers and gilt beading know as porcelain jewels. The middle is enclosed within a ring of laurels.
With this Charger the maker is quite difficult to tell but some experts believe it to be an early Ridgeway piece. 
There is some crazing expected with age.
In the early 1700s, fine English china was painstakingly decorated by hand. Artists were employed by the china manufacturing firms to paint elaborate patterns on each piece to be sold.
Not surprisingly, sets of this early hand-painted dinnerware were quite expensive. Only the wealthiest families could own and use hand-painted china. 
But by the mid-1700s, a revolutionary technique for decorating china and pottery was developed. It changed the industry forever. Instead of painting designs by hand, factories used a printing method that allowed detailed designs to be transferred onto the china. The product became known as transferware. It was applied to more affordable china and stoneware.
A beautiful addition to add to any room.