Conta & Boehme, Possneck, Germany. My guess would be circa 1900.
I think that it's not showing up as Bitossi/Londi/Raymor works against it being any of them. The comb isn't typical for Italian or Portuguese....
I'm not seeing this as lathe turned.
Could be Minton. Could be restaurant or hotel ware. (It's embarrassing to go into a restaurant and flip the plates over to see who made them......
Kvosh? Large Salt? Someone made good use of an oddly shaped bit of wood.
What makes you think this is so old? I don't know otherwise, I'm just asking. I think that the pattern is a heraldic shield, decorated with a...
It is what's there. I copied small bits of the photo onto a white field. [ATTACH]
Selective cloning. I still can't read it, and I'm not certain there isn't stuff there that's not part of the siggy.
[ATTACH] My idle guess on the date would be first decade or so of the 1900s
You need to rescue it from those boards. If you open it up, I think you will find the paper has turned brown, largely from contact with those...
The Henner does get copied on occasion: [ATTACH]
I think the final lady is Ludovica Tournabuoni from Ghirlandaio's Birth of the Virgin.
Yes, Saint Fabiola after Henner
That they find it is more important than where they find it.
The info is on this site: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C442386 but it hasn't been digitized. I think you'd have to register...
You should publish this as one of those eBay guides. After all, you've got it mostly already written.
I figured it was hand made. "Saucer Foot Sherbet" will come in useful, thanks. I have 4 of these.
3 1/2" high, 4" across top rim, 3 3/4" across foot. Fire polished rim (? - not safety). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I'd say they fall under the heading "crested ware". I've had pieces with English themes made by Goss, Shelley, Ford & Pointon, and Waterfall...
I like it as well, but I think it's a fragment of a larger picture. It has borders like it has been a long time in a frame, but only on two edges.
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