Try Rosebery’s. They do good stuff and aren’t as sniffy as Christie’s or Sotheby’s. Also, Toovey.
Cheryl, I’d seen the cow jugs, they’re relatively common. Never ever a cat, which is why I didn’t think it English. I am now on the hunt.
I think it’s like anything else, companies followed trends. You’ve only to look at how many companies made almost identical glass in the sixties.
I’ve a Bretby planter which is very similar.
That’s Spanish touristware, seventies. I’ve got a fair few.
Blimey, never seen one of those before.
I don’t think it’s English either, fwiw.
I don’t think it’s a royal mint one. They make or sponsor items very specifically related to coinage and such.
The U is rather like a lyre.
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Not English, imo. That number style is Austrian or German. Looks like wine or gluhwein I reckon. Not a shape used here for any liquid I can think of.
Never knew Ruth was a steam geek!
Late nineteenth into early twentieth. I think I lost that a while back, send it back to me.
Edwardian ones are usually more complex , with multiple swags and on finer chains. This is transitioning to art deco.
That looks like the initials of the maker and the date 1830, which would fit.
That W number is the pattern name. Early twentieth.
Looks like part of a chatelaine.
These, when made by Pratt and other Devon potteries, were called water monkeys. Some designed by Dresser.
I’d think twenties ish. Lovely thing that.
Older Belgian pots are quite substantial and that glaze does look right.
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