Really fun design, two beautiful MCM plates, 6" diameter.  Both plates show vintage wear - crazing, scratches. One has a faint hairline crack on the edge of one plate, and the other has faint scratches baked into the glaze (so it came that way?). See photos.

Info. from Replacements.com: 

"Description: Pink, Green, Black Flowers & Circles

Pattern: Carnival by Stangl

Status: Discontinued. Actual: 1954 - 1978"

This pattern was developed by ceramic designer Kay Hackett: 

"The pattern with a party mood was Kay's Carnival.  This pattern enjoyed quite a bit of popularity during the 1950s and into the 1960s."

(stanglpottery.org/kayhackettstory2.htm)