In the hierarchy of British pottery firms, Crown Staffordshire ranks somewhere in the middle. I like some of their stuff -- I collected a few...
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Geez, that bright gilding always makes me think Japanese. Crinoline ladies -- and could be later, like 1950 on up. When I was a kid in the 60s, I...
Congrats on the upcoming 20th anniversary Chris!
Could be retailer or perhaps the company that makes the metal mounts.
Fourth for silver. Jewelry cloth or sunshine cloth and it'll dazzle!
I like it! Quality seems quite good!
Cool. Asian was my other thought, but I would've said Japan rather than Macao.
It does look like a marriage.
Meissen in a charity shop! :singing:
The crossed swords mark is wrong, but it could be another German factory. I can't recall it unfortunately.
You know, Otagiri exported a lot of pottery and porcelain to North America. They were huge in the 80s and 90s and sold very well partly because...
If not too much $$$, I'd pick it up!
Aesthetic/japonisme era perhaps. No idea who did it, but it's a good size and nicely done.
Someone pressed clay into a mold? Curious but cute.
Well, my first impression is that someone tried their hand at fancying up a plain glass bottle. BWDIK? I would've lost out on $100K. :D
That box and contents is all kinds of lovely! Congrats to your BIL on that score!
My Mom had one in pink. I had it but I don't know what I did with it.
The china market is very "depressed" value-wise these days. If you have a local online selling site or even FaceBook Marketplace that might be...
LOL, I was trying to make that mark look like Ridgeway -- a British firm. The Tonkin pattern name made me think British. But I should've seen...
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