Pair of English Ironstone Soup Plates

These soup plates have scalloped edgeas that frame a border with a rare yellow background containing stylized leaf clusters and round star lozenges interspersed with four cobalt cart...

Set of four Spode ''NEW STONE'' plates, the rim with dimpled edges, border decorated with stylized flowers and foliage , center with similar motifs on a larger scale as well as a d...

Pair of Chamberlain Worcester soup plates. Large pair gilt and floral decorated plates with shaped pale green borders with reserves of floral sprays and gil...

This is a good, late Georgian, ironstone Soup Bowl or Plate, in pattern no. 15, manufactured by the English Davenport factory, which was situated in Longport, Staffordshire, England between 1794 and 1887. This oriental garden pattern is transfer printed in cobalt blue of different shades, with hand gilded detail around the inner and outer rims. The pattern is called "Bamboo and Peony" which is Davenport's pattern number 15, a very early pattern and probably copied from a Chinese original. This exact pattern is illustrated on a plate in Godden's Guide to Ironstone, by Geoffrey A Godden, page 230, plate 176. Davenport were one of the earliest producers of Ironstone along with Mason's, Spode and others and called their ironstone pottery wears "Stone China". On the back the plate carries the blue printed Davenport Stone...