The phrase "a plaque that read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the text or message displayed on a plaque, often in a narrative or descriptive context.
Example: "As I walked through the park, I noticed a plaque that read, 'In memory of those who served.'"
Alternatives: "a plaque that said" or "a plaque inscribed with".
An evergreen was marked with a plaque that read "Farthest North Spruce Tree on the Alaska Pipeline: Do Not Cut".
Only when we bumped into a plaque that read "Tahawus," the Indian name for Cloud Splitter, did we realize that we were standing on top of New York.
In Duisburg, the man stood the leg atop a concrete base, to which he affixed a plaque that read, "Saddam Hussein Statue.
On the day he accepted the top job, his wife, Cara, had presented him with a plaque that read simply, "All Things to All People," and for months it held pride of place on his office wall.
This used to be like Hong Kong!" Ball Zuloaga said that until fairly recently the Van Cleef & Arpels store in New York had a plaque that read "New York, Paris, Caracas".
The setting for Mr. Watanabe's beautiful show was the Musée Bourdelle, where amid the enormous equestrian and warrior statuary there was a plaque that read: "In the life of sculpture, a superficial plan is an incident.
Butler has newspaper cuttings of his cases all over his office walls, and a plaque that reads: "You're in trouble.
Today, a plaque that reads "William J. Clinton Foundation" hangs at the entrance of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center.
Attached to the base of the statue is a plaque that reads something like this: We know that this statue will offend many people.
And yet, at the entrance to each of Guantanamo's seven camps, there is a plaque that reads: "Honor Bound to Defend Freedom".
In the tiny Cumberland Mountains community of Albany, seat of Clinton County, Ky., there stands a plaque that reads, "Civil War Terrorist Champ Ferguson born here in 1821.
