Lot Essay
For three plates from this mirror-monogrammed service, see Peter William and Pat Halfpenny, A Passion for Pottery, Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, New York, 2000, p. 104 and 105.
Three others from this service are known, one is located at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (see Chas. F. C. Luxmoore, "Saltglaze" with The Notes of a Collection, London, 1924, pl. 8 and pl. 56 for the block.); another in the British Museum (see R.L. Hobson, British Museum, London, 1903, pl. XXIII, no. G116) and a third was exhibited at the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar in 1990.
Three others from this service are known, one is located at the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (see Chas. F. C. Luxmoore, "Saltglaze" with The Notes of a Collection, London, 1924, pl. 8 and pl. 56 for the block.); another in the British Museum (see R.L. Hobson, British Museum, London, 1903, pl. XXIII, no. G116) and a third was exhibited at the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar in 1990.