By Wemyss
Located in Soquel, CA
This beautiful late 19th century combe Jardinière is decorated in Wemyss's characteristic hand-painted cabbage roses and scalloped painted rim, circa 1880. Marked "Weymss" on bottom. Size is 6.75" H x 9.50" W.
One of several potteries in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the Fife Pottery or Gallatown Pottery was founded in 1817 by Archibald and Andrew Grey. It was bought ten years later by John Methven, and from there passed to Robert Heron. When his son, Robert Methven Heron (1833-1906) took over the pottery in around 1850, it became Robert Heron and Son.
By the 1880s, Robert Heron and Son were branding their products as "Wemyss ware...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Scottish Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières