Lot Essay
Cf. Gaye Blake Roberts, Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years (London, 1996), p. 76, pl. 70 for a vase with the 'Elephant Foot' pattern.
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CIRCA 1815, IMPRESSED MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA MARK
Details
Four Mason's Ironstone Imari dinner-plates
Circa 1815, impressed MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA mark
Each printed, painted and gilt with the 'Elephant Foot' pattern, (one with rim chip, the others with hairline cracks, restoration, and crack to base, rubbing to enamels and gilding)
Two plates 9¾ in. (25 cm.), diam. the others 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. (4)
Circa 1815, impressed MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA mark
Each printed, painted and gilt with the 'Elephant Foot' pattern, (one with rim chip, the others with hairline cracks, restoration, and crack to base, rubbing to enamels and gilding)
Two plates 9¾ in. (25 cm.), diam. the others 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. (4)
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