This is very fine and rare; the shape is exceedingly beautiful and unusual.

It has wonderful decorations on it, but I am not able to reproduce them.

It cost more than the tear-jug, as the dealer said there was not another plate just like it in the world.

He said there was much false Henri II ware around, but that the genuineness of this piece was unquestionable.
He showed me its pedigree, or its history, if you please; it was a document which traced this plate's movements all the way down from its birth--showed who bought it, from whom, and what he paid for it--from the first buyer down to me, whereby I saw that it had gone steadily up from thirty-five cents to seven hundred dollars.

He said that the whole Ceramic world would be informed that it was now in my possession and would make a note of it, with the price paid.