Gavin Houghton - A Very Handy Plate

Each in the shape of a Grecian urn with two outward scrolling handles and fitted with two bulb sockets; mounted on black faux marble-painted bases with gil...

Each with brown line-edged rim and hand painted with botanical specimens including woolley cineraria and clematis virginiana in pinks and purples; some with iron-red script with spec...

Each with brown line-edged rim and decorated with botanical specimens including hibiscus, strawberry plant, and mallow; some with iron-red specimen script to underside. Provenance...

With mahogany banding and checkerbanding throughout; with slanted, hinged lid opening to a fitted interior.

This is a finely hand painted large and rare early Stone China (Ironstone) plate / stand or platter which dates to the George 111 period, circa 1815. Made by the DAVENPORT factory of Longport, Staffordshire Potteries, England. The plate is very well potted with a slightly raised central circular section. This plate is beautifully hand painted in a pattern called "Stork", which is pattern number 24 and one of Davenport's very few Chinoiserie patterns. This bold pattern features polychrome enamels with a stork, chrysanthemum and peony in an oriental garden. There are under-glaze blue transfers in under-glaze cobalt blue, with orange, pink, and brown over-glaze enamels. The pattern is embellished with excellent hand gilding. This pattern is a match to the Ralph & James Clews pattern called " Crane in Chinese Garden". A photo of the Clews plate in this pattern is on page 142 of Griselda Lewis' "A Collector's History of English Pottery". The mark on the base of the Plate or Platter is Godden's 1183, a blue printed DAVENPORT STONE CHINA...

Both showing a central field decorated with striking hand painted Heraldic crests, the rims decorated with hand painted Baronial coronets within gilt edged detail. The reverse of eac...

art deco huge Ø33cm! fruit bowl hand made in France ar. 1930 - very rare in perfect condition

Very large Kaehler, HAK, glazed stoneware vase. In very good condition. Beautiful glaze. Stamped. Size: 44 cm high, 19 cm in diameter.