Showing posts with label Flow blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flow blue. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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.

Monday, July 12, 2010

J & G Meakin platter - Chester pattern


There are three platters in this set, descending in size.  The back mark shows the maker was J & G Meakin, and the pattern is "Chester".  The J & G Meakin China and Pottery website suggests the date as 1912+.

The platters were part of Max's mother's estate.  Going on the date of the maker's mark, I think they were probably wedding gifts given to her parents, Floris Christina Harry and Frederick James Dobson Brown.  They were married in Melbourne in 1913.

I haven't been able to find any other examples online of this pattern.

UPDATE:  This platter appears to have the Flow blue style of glazing.