William De Morgan Plate

A shell form asparagus plate, William Adderley, Longton, Staffordshire, England, circa 1880, for the French market. A transfer printed pattern of floral sprays dot an open clam sh...

Antique Derby Porcelain Botanical Salmon-ground Plate, Marsh Hibiscus, by John Brewer after Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, #882, 1806, circa 1815. The Derby Porcelain plate is superbly painted with a Marsh Hibiscus botanical specimen with richly gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads on a rich salmon ground.y gilded borders with swans and stylized flowerheads are on a rich salmon ground. The flower is named on the reverse: "Marsh Hibiscus". Diameter: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm) Mark: crown, crossed batons, and D mark in red, numerals 4 & 13 in yellow & green inside foot rim. John Brewer, (1764-1816) John was the elder of two brothers who both worked at Derby. Their parents were both artists and from 1762-1767 had studios in London at Rupert Street. Brewer started working at Derby in 1795. He was a talented watercolorist and had never applied his art to porcelain painting. At Derby, he painted a variety of subject matters including plant and flower painting. The Botanical Magazine is one of the oldest - and longest-published - of the British botanical...

A purple transfer printed plate in the Fountain Scenery pattern, William Adams IV & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, circa 1829-1861. A scalloped plate, printed in pu...

Hand welded and ground Murano glass plate with an arrangement of polychrome murrines depicting numbers from zero to nine and nine to zero. Designed in 1975 and awarded during exhi...