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...

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...

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...

SET OF SIX AESTHETIC WEDGWOOD MARIGOLD PLATES, 8.5” Hard to Find Set of SIX MARIGOLD Pattern plates, 8.5”, with black transfer designs and scarlet decorative centers in each flower. C.1887. The plates are 8.5 inches in diameter. The plates are in good condition but have slight wear. Two have tiny chips. The pattern has a black transfer design of stylized marigold design with cerise highlights in the center of the flowers...

STUNNING WEDGWOOD MAJOLICA TILE, 8" Square,PASSION FLOWER & VINE I consider this one of the most beautiful tiles I have ever seen. The coloring is perfect, the moulding and botanical design is botanically impeccable. The background is a deep lustre brown with iridescent highlights. The passion flower has a cerulean center of feathery rich blue stamens, plus the yellow pistils and the very white petals. The vine also includes tendrils and five point leaves as well as two buds...

FIVE CLASSICAL MUSICIANS TILES BY WEDGWOOD FIVE WEDGWOOD TILES, c. 1880s, RARE CLASSICAL MUSICIANS SERIES. Backs say Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Etruria. 6" x 6". Great condition for their age with slight signs of use/wear. Fronts are beautiful and very presentable, backs have some wear. There is some debate as to who designed the series, “Classical Musicians in the Orange Grove”...

Large Aesthetic Polychrome INDUS Fruit Bowl, 1885. This had to find INDUS Fruit Bowl or Serving Bowl, measures 4-1/8" tall and 11-5/8" across the handles. The INDUS pattern was first introduced by Ridgway in 1877. The design is an exotic Oriental scene with birds and bamboo, as well as distant pagodas - all showing Chinese and Japanese influences. The multi-motif pattern varies between different pieces of the service. It has a floral border with birds...

BROWNHILL AESTHETIC JUG WITH JAPANESQUE VERTICAL DECORATION IN TURQUOISE This pitcher became one of the icons of the Aesthetic Movement ceramics, because of the masterly English adaptation of Japanese style and has appeared in a number of books and catalogues...

AESTHETIC MINTON POMEGRANATE PLATE, 10' diam, w. gilding, retailed by Davis Collamore, New York, c. 1880 This handsome asymmetrical design of ripe pomegranates on branches is a transfer in rust red, with hand painted deeper rust red, and gilded flowers and pomegranate seeds. The background of very light cream (in contrast to the white bone china or porcelain shown on the back) is scattered with tiny spokes in wheels with an enameled gilded spot on the end of each spoke. The marking indic...

AESTHETIC MOVEMENT BLACK WHITE AND RED MARIGOLD PLATE BY WEDGWOOD c.1870s. This Aesthetic Movement design of the 1890s has a black transfer on white clay with hand painted deep red highlights. Wedgwood first introduced the MARIGOLD design in 1878. The pattern features very stylized representations of marigolds that cover both the interior of the plate, as well as the repeating border design in addition to the Eastern or Islamic arches. It’s a beautiful and bold design! The dinner plate ...

CHRISTOPHER DRESSER AESTHETIC PITCHER for Old Hall Earthenware, w. Orange Blossoms on Pink Background. Beautiful Aesthetic Movement wash pitcher with dark pink background with branches of oranges and orange blossoms. Some wear of gilding. Christopher Dresser is known to have produced many designs for Old Hall, and this shape is known to be one of the shapes he designed. Stamped on base Old Hall Ware England. 13" in height and 11" from end of spout to end of handle. Slight crazing on ...

BROWNFIELD PITCHER IN BLUE TRANSFER ON WHITE, ORIENTAL DESIGN, THE MANDARIN PATTERN......... Blue and White Pitcher by Brownfield and Son (ca. 1850-1871) in the MANDARIN pattern, basketweave moulding at the base and also at the top rim. There is even a moulded ribbon finish to the band at the top. The pitcher has an exotic Oriental design, with lush vegetation of tall bamboo and plum blossom branches, and a Japanese woman with a parasol in a garden, with a wooden pagoda resting place, to k...