Imperial Porcelain, St Petersberg

 

It's dinner plate size but made new according to a 1744 pattern.   It was purchased recently by Julie from a shop attached to the factory in St Petersberg, Russia.  It's for on the wall, not to eat off.

Johnson Bros Flow Blue "Jewel" pattern dinner plate

This is a Johnston Bros England Flow Blue, scalloped edge, dinner plate.

Flow blue is a style of white earthenware, sometimes porcelain, that originated in the Regency era, sometime in the 1820s, among the Staffordshire potters of England. The name is derived from the blue glaze that blurred or "flowed" during the firing process.

The backstamp indicates a post-1913 date of origin.

The factory was in the Charles Street works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent from 1883 to 2004.

Jenny found this piece in the local BSL recently.  The linked article on Flow blue indicates that most English potteries stopped doing Flow blue in the mid 1910s, to the plate may date from around that period.

Royal Doulton Flowers and Poplars pattern dinner plate

The flowers may be anemones with poplars in the background.  The rim is painted in dark green. The backstamp and impressed number of 34 seem to indicate that the plate dates from 1934.

I bought this in a little antique shop in Block Arcade many years ago for Max's birthday one year, but I think I liked it more than he did.

Grimwades Royal Winton Ivory, "Fruitful Tree" pattern, 1930+

This dinner plate is a Grimwades Royal Winton Ivory, in the "Fruitful Tree" pattern. 

The backstamp has been dated to 1930+, and I think the plate is probably no older than the 1930s - I'm not sure I've seen that shape used in later decades, but I am no expert.

This is the backstamp giving the date as 1930+.  The registered number of 788985 seems to be the number for the Fruitful Tree pattern.

I acquired this from an antique shop in Ascot Vale around 30 years ago.

Myott Sons & Co dinner plate

This is a single Myott, Sons & Co dinner plate I picked up in an op shop many years ago.  The gilt band around the edge, and the band inside that (also gold) is very shiny, meant to attract bower-birds.  I have an idea that the "H" in the back stamp stands for Myott's Hanley factory, which would date the plate at 1947+.

Myotts were apparently very well known for Art Deco pottery vases.  A Myott collectors' webpage has a few samples of Myott back stamps, but none with the shield

Argos pattern dinner plate

This is the plate I know least about.  Max liked the look of this in an antique shop around 30 years ago.  It has no maker's mark, but it does have the pattern stamped on the back.

It is a quite heavy plate.  The pattern is in black, terracotta, and a dark yellow around the rim.  Because the rim of the plate is still in good condition and glossy, the yellow can look a bit like a gold edge.

A whole setting in this pattern would have looked very impressive.  The glaze is only a little crazed, but I can't guess it's age.


Further to Tansleyandtansley's remarks, Thomas Fell & Co was a well-known Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland pottery firm supplying the North-east of England and the Baltic Trade with their domestic Dinner and Teawares. They opened in 1817 and closed in 1890.

The plate would seem to date to the late 1880s or 1890.