Rustic French Plate Saint Amand Circa 1920

Unusual Majolica asparagus plate attributed to Saint Amand, circa 1880.

Lovely Majolica plate with bird and insect, leaves signed Saint Amand, circa 1890.

A French faïence Asparagus plate with a leaf shaped dipping well for sauce, from Saint Amand et Hamage, circa 1930s. Glazed in the Orchies region ...

This is a good early pair of dinner plates, hand painted ironstone (stone china ) made by William Davenport and Co., longport, staffordshire potteries, England, George 111rd period, circa 1815. The pattern is number "659", which is one of Davenport's very few chinoiserie patterns. The bold decoration features striking polychrome enamels of rocks and different flowers all in the Chinoiserie style, hand painted over-glaze in different colours over an under-glaze blue printed outline. The pattern is embellished with good hand gilding and a five section border pattern to the outer rim, similar to the central pattern with sprigs of hand painted flowers. The mark on the base of the dish is Godden's 1183, a blue printed Davenport stone China...