The stone looks to me like carved pumice. Is it light for its size? Does it float?
Decorator companies can buy blanks for any manufacturer and create their own patterns. How successfully they do that is bound to vary. Marks...
Whistler did The Peacock Room in 1877, so I would guess this dates to about then. (It was a fashion sensation.) I would guess 'on tiles' rather...
Ridgway used Real Ironstone China as a three line impressed mark, but (if I'm reading this correctly) it was used on re-issues of earlier Ashworth...
Mark 17 on that page is attributed to Morley and Ashworth. Godden shows a similar Morley and Ashworth mark with Imperial Ironstone beneath and...
Looks to be the same. Does that price seem ambitious?
Just looking at some of those words. Varja Vishva-vajra Vajra-yana
I'm not surprised to hear it. It doesn't look like any other jadeite I've seen, but to my eye it is definitely jade-green.
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