Autumn Fruits Plate

£15.00

Fabulous vintage bone china cake plate made in Staffordshire England and decorated with the expensive fruits much coveted by the Victorians, a pineapple, cherries, strawberries, white and red currants and russet apples.  A wide band of gilding enhances each plate on the rim and an inner circle.

Marked ” Hammersly Pottery Decorators Ltd Fine Bone China ” – Date range 1940/50

Plate – 26.5 cm diameter

Excellent condition, no cracks, crazing or chips to the china with a little wear to the gilding. 

 

6 in stock

Description

Hammersley and Co. has a history of producing high quality, finely decorated bone china. The company began in 1862 as a china manufacturer at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent and went through several name changes before the works finally closed in 1982.  The Hammersley name was sold to Aynsley in 1989. 

Hammersley and Co

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