Two Victorian plates commemorating Benjamin Disraeli and Sir Moses Montefiore

the first of English creamware, transfer printed with an image of the statesman seated, below his earl's coronet and flanked by flowers; the second of pressed glass, with profile portrait of Sir Moses above the letters for mazal tov

The glass plate has some overall scratching to its surface. There are also two very small rim-chips. The creamware plate has some minor crazing as well as some wear to the gilding on the rim edge. Otherwise both in generally good condition.
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The statesman Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) is often considered to be Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister, although he was baptized at age 13 and was in fact a practicing Anglican; this plate probably commemorates his elevation to the House of Lords in 1876, when Queen Victoria made him the Earl of Beaconsfield.

The philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) made an early fortune in business with his brother-in-law Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, then devoted the next six decades of his life to humanitarian causes, particularly on behalf of Jews around the world.  This plate, with its Mazal Tov inscription, was probably made to commemorate his 100th birthday.

Examples of both of these plates are in the collection of the Jewish Museum, London.