COPELAND AESTHETIC BLUE & WHITE TRANSFERWARE WITH CRANES, c. 1878.
This transferware design features palm or bamboo trees on a small island, with cranes or herons with fish in its beak. A butterfly hovers near the rim. The blue transfer on white is less common than the creamware with polychrome transfer. The design is open and flowing and does not compete with food served upon it. The pattern is numbered D9875. The pattern is multimotif, with different arrangements of the key elements, ...click for details
AESTHETIC COPELAND PRIMROSE PLATTER W. LUSTRE, 1881
The pattern, PRIMROSE, was introduced BY W.T. Copeland in 1881. The Aesthetic Movement design has a black printed transfer of a stylized central exotic flower radiating in arches like a pinwheel star from the center and decorated with Acanthus leaves all around the edge. The central star is made up of small primrose blossoms as well as a border with tiny primroses. Each petal is hand painted in shades of blue, pink, magenta or pale ochre ...click for details
AESTHETIC PLATTER, INDIAN EMPRESS, DESIGNED BY BRUCE TALBERT WITH ALLOVER DESIGN OF BIRDS IN TREES
Brown-Westhead-Moore & Company introduced the INDIAN EMPRESS pattern in 1875. Bruce Talbert was an architect and designer, best known for his furniture and textiles. He was the designer of this wonderful complex design. Look carefully to see the number of birds hiding in the branches! The rich cobalt blue design is on a white background. Imagine this design as a Japanese textile, ...click for details
AESTHETIC POLYCHROME TRANSFERWARE PLATTER,BAMBOO & ALMOND BLOSSOMS
This Japanesque platter has stems of bamboo on the left hand side while the major focus is a large branch of pink almond blossoms with the incongruity of young almonds maturing alongside the blossoms. The platter is approx. 16” in length and is in excellent condition. Another incongruity is the pattern name, BRAMBLE, which does not relate to either bamboo or almond blossoms! The maker was H & C. Date of manufacture ...click for details
AESTHETIC ENAMELED LAMP WITH BRONZE BASE, WITH BRONZE BASE. MAKER: JULES VIEILLARD. BRONZE BASE. The enameling is Persian Iznik style.
A little over 8.5 inches in height and 4.25 inches in diam. This vase is handsomely enameled in the Persian or Iznik style. The varying bands of design include many foliate designs in rich colors including turquoise blue, cobalt blue, green, rust red and white. If you look carefully, you will find the playful black and white faces of men with beards, ...click for details
DOULTON DECO PLATE w. Squiggles, Bright Pink against a strong Aqua Blue, and Yellow.
(Description in progress.) The plate has intense colors. I have slowly amassed a collection of these plates. Apart from being spectacular as part of table settings, they are also spectacular as groups on cabinet shelf, or on the wall.
PATTERN NO. PLATE DIAM.: 10.5” CONDITION: Very good, with no cracks, crazing or chips. Date of Manufacture: c. 1930s
During the early 20th Cen ...click for details
DOULTON DECO PLATE w. Squiggles, Blue Yellow Pink
PATTERN NO. PLATE DIAM.: 10.5" CONDITION: More than Very Good. Date of Manufacture: c. 1930s
During the early 20th Century, Doulton increased the number of artisans and artists who created new designs, many of them geometrical, but still based on flora and foliage, as well as some Persian influences. The colors tend to be intense and the color combinations have an edge to them.
