NINE ENGLISH (C. BARLOW) TOPOGRAPHICAL BROWN-GROUND PLATES

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NINE ENGLISH (C. BARLOW) TOPOGRAPHICAL BROWN-GROUND PLATES
CIRCA 1885, PRINTED MARKS

Each painted in colours with a land or seascape framed within a gilt square and named on the reverse, the matt-brown ground gilt in two tones with fruiting rasberry vines within a gilt edge--9¼in. (23.3cm.) wide (9)

Lot Essay

Although C. Barlow of Smithfield Works, Hanley is recorded as taking out a patent in October 1882 for a 'method of ornamenting pottery with bright and dead gold effects', this potter is not recorded in the area directories.