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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 2539164, member: 29"]I know that site very well, they're all Lambeth marks. it's very misleading in the sense that it doesn't make that clear on each page. It also gets a fair bit of the history wrong, especially with the constant references to "Royal". The best reference work, which I own, is a marvellous book called the Doulton Lambeth Wares. It's scholarly and very well researched indeed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cruickshank was a noted and superb Lambeth artist, not a Burslem one. The Burslem factory used much more Staffordshire conventional markings, painted pattern numbers and piecework marks, such as are on this piece. If you do get artists' signatures on Burslem of the period, they are usually in the body of the art. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lambeth was very proud of its artists and decorators, and carefully identified them. You can pin point Lambeth much better. And Cruickshank was a better artist than whoever did this one - he did a great deal of portrait work. I've just done some googling and I honestly despair. There's work of his out there, which is LAMBETH FAIENCE and they're describing as Burslem! He worked at Lambeth and did exhibition pieces, too. 1880 to 87. </p><p><br /></p><p>A supposedly noted auctioneer: <a href="https://www.pascoeandcompany.com/portrait-charger.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pascoeandcompany.com/portrait-charger.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.pascoeandcompany.com/portrait-charger.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And even more nonsense! <a href="https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/689749/a-beautiful-late-19th-c-doulton-burslem-vase/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/689749/a-beautiful-late-19th-c-doulton-burslem-vase/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/689749/a-beautiful-late-19th-c-doulton-burslem-vase/</a> A rather badly tube lined mass market vase which Cruickshank would have smashed to pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 2539164, member: 29"]I know that site very well, they're all Lambeth marks. it's very misleading in the sense that it doesn't make that clear on each page. It also gets a fair bit of the history wrong, especially with the constant references to "Royal". The best reference work, which I own, is a marvellous book called the Doulton Lambeth Wares. It's scholarly and very well researched indeed. Cruickshank was a noted and superb Lambeth artist, not a Burslem one. The Burslem factory used much more Staffordshire conventional markings, painted pattern numbers and piecework marks, such as are on this piece. If you do get artists' signatures on Burslem of the period, they are usually in the body of the art. Lambeth was very proud of its artists and decorators, and carefully identified them. You can pin point Lambeth much better. And Cruickshank was a better artist than whoever did this one - he did a great deal of portrait work. I've just done some googling and I honestly despair. There's work of his out there, which is LAMBETH FAIENCE and they're describing as Burslem! He worked at Lambeth and did exhibition pieces, too. 1880 to 87. A supposedly noted auctioneer: [URL]https://www.pascoeandcompany.com/portrait-charger.html[/URL] And even more nonsense! [URL]https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/689749/a-beautiful-late-19th-c-doulton-burslem-vase/[/URL] A rather badly tube lined mass market vase which Cruickshank would have smashed to pieces.[/QUOTE]
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