Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire honey amber glaze

honey amber glaze

The plate depicts a an assortment of airy botanicals in an assymetrical pattern

BLUE & WHITE BROWN FLORAL CHINTZ TRANSFER WARE STAFFORDSHIRE CATS

Bright red face mask

This superbly decorated piece was manufactured by the Staffordshire pottery of Felix and Richard Pratt and features the highly sought after and very collectable Hops Queen

Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire honey amber glaze"There is probably no object so much a natural part of the English landscape, nor which makes such a direct appeal to the heart and imagination, as the old country cottage". This perfectly charming 17th century cottage in Luddington Warwickshire (misspelled on the plate with only one D), now part of Stratford on Avon, is featured in the 1906 antique book entitled "Old English Country Cottages" on page 131 in the section which features the gardens,