Ridgway Meadowsweet Blue Transferware Plate

Ridgway Meadowsweet Blue Transferware PlateA blue and white ironstone plate decorated in the transfer printed Meadowsweet pattern. The design shows a country landscape in deep blue: a cluster of cottages and a church tower set among tall trees, with a fenced lane and figures in the foreground, framed by a moulded swirl rim. Produced by Ridgway of Staffordshire, the backstamp marks it as genuine hand engraved ironstone, guaranteed underglaze and detergent proof. Great on a plate wall.

and rustic rooftops are rendered in a painterly

good quality

and delicate coral or shell feet that lift each piece just off the surface

while the interior aperture reveals a soft blush-pink glaze

the unmistakable lean

A rare antique blown glass apothecary mortar and pestle dating to the late 19th to early 20th century

colonial-style buildings on stilts

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Foliage and architectural details are picked out by hand in green and pink

A beautiful collection - each tin is a small world

framed by a banded geometric border of stylised blossoms

Please note there is one chip to the rim