The number has a G prefix. "G were richly decorated expensive China Tableware patterns, practically all of which had a lot of gold on them, but...
The problem is that Aldermaston exclusively made tin-glazed earthenware, which this certainly isn't.
Maybe a copy after Joseph Lindon Smith, who was in Pisa in 1890: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/305944
An example here of Carrigan's work on board, with good close ups of the back for comparison:...
A pair with the same mark: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1895974749/matching-pair-of-bud-vases-vc-cs-england and another, same shape, with a...
The Bodley plates in this series are printed in black with fairly basic hand painting. The monogrammed plate is entirely hand painted, requiring a...
It looks like it's in imitation of this Bow piece, but nothing like the same quality....
Hulbert's portraits seem mostly to have been in pastel. His first name was Jimmy and he lived in Darjeeling....
A label on the back of one here gives an address in Banstead, Surrey. She also has ARCA after her name, for Associate of the Royal College of Art....
In the 1901 census he's described as "ARTIST LANDSCAPE PAINTER & PRINTSELLER", aged 40 (i.e. born c.1861), born Scotland. Living at 187 Merridale...
Elsie Englefield's book (published in 1933, largely as a promotional item for her firm, Brown and Englefield) has an illustration of a very...
It would be the name of the pub it belonged to. See my comments at the end of this thread:...
A lot of these seem to be pyrography with added paint.
Not necessarily. Some artists simply prefer not to reverse the image - especially if working from life directly onto the plate. Whistlers etchings...
Intriguing how minimal and elegant the cancellation is on this and other of Picasso's etching plates. He, or his representatives, clearly didn't...
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