Featured Help identifying a broken piece of willow pattern china.

I found this piece of willow pattern china, in the mud on the side of a river, and I'm wanting to know how old it might be, and where it may have come from. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Early nineteenth Staffordshire almost certainly.

 

A later Staffordshire 'Blue Willow' piece with a similar border fyi.

Debora

 

Wow, it's older then I thought it was, thanks for identifying it. I never would have worked it out.
I wonder how on earth to got to the place where I found it, I suppose I'll never know.

Thanks for that, nice to see what it would have looked like when it was in one piece.

 

Folks used the river as their dump in the old days-some sadly still do.I see broken couches (and everything else) along the highway.
Like Joni said-"You paved Paradise and put in an apocalyptic garbage dump".

 

I would have said the same thing if the river wasn't so far from civilization.

 

Quarter-Might there have been an old homestead,houseboat or picnic there in days past/ any 'Mudlarking' sites nearby ?

 

Or privy.

Debora

 

Well, the flow of water carries things far away from where they originally landed.

 

What country are you in, Quartermain?

 

True, but the river is very rocky, so it probably wouldn't have survived the journey down the river.

South Africa.

 

Good to know! Welcome,

 

Some local historical research might help trace a previous area of habitation-boat launch,small dock,pioneer trail,herders/fishing shack,etc ?

 

interesting avatar there Quarter......

Frederick Thomas Green (1829-1876) Born Montreal, Quebec. Died Heikhamkab, near Walvis Bay

 

It doesn't surprise me a bit that it survived. Some of that old ironstone was tough stuff, and blue willow is still being made to this day so there's a lot of it about. It was exported darned near everywhere. Somebody's grannie's Sunday Roast platter went bust and into the privy. Later it washed out and went down the stream, fetching up where it was found.

 

Yours is rather earlier than the nice example @Debora posted. The colour on yours is more muted, and the transfer pattern less exact. Yours will be hand applied.

 

in the mud on the side of a river,........

I would think that could mute the color somewhat over time.

 

I just thought of something else, there is an old manor house, about an hours hike from the river, and I remember reading that the owners used to go on picnics (back in 1870) down to the coast, so its highly likely they also visited the Salt River. There where also quite a few woodcutters in the area back then, so it could have come from them.

 

they didn't use paper plates on a picnic back then....so.....