AN ENGLISH (E.J.D. BODLEY) RELIEF-MOULDED PART SERVICE

CIRCA 1879, PRINTED BLACK E.J.D.B. MARKS, MOULDED AND BLACK PRINTED REGISTRY DIAMONDS FOR 29 JANUARY 1879

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AN ENGLISH (E.J.D. BODLEY) RELIEF-MOULDED PART SERVICE
CIRCA 1879, PRINTED BLACK E.J.D.B. MARKS, MOULDED AND BLACK PRINTED REGISTRY DIAMONDS FOR 29 JANUARY 1879
Each high-relief plate moulded in the Japonism taste and painted in turquoise with scenes of birds perched on or flying amongst branches, some eyeing butterflies or other inscects, within a gilt dentil rim, comprising: two trefoil branch-footed compotes and eleven plates
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diameter (13)

Lot Essay

Edwin J.D. Bodley took over the china division of Samuel Alcock's Hill Pottery at Burslem with his associate Mr. Diggory in 1870, but by 1876 Bodley was running the factory on his own. It continued to produce quality porcelain until 1892.

See Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, London, 1983, p. 528, fig 704 for an example of a footed-compote from the same mould.

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