a group of fourteen (14) hand-painted Mason's Ironstone luncheon plates, in the gilded pattern, from their earliest George III Period, circa 1818. These plates are well painted in the Chinoiserie pattern called Vase and Flower, showing a golden flower vase by a small table with a scholar's stone base, by a swan sitting on a nest of yellow eggs on a pink lake. The pattern is hand enameled, over-glaze in colors of burnt orange, yellow, brown, blue, green, and pink over an under-glaze printed outline, with gold gilding to one side of the vase. The piece is fully marked to the base with a single line impressed "Masons Patent Ironstone China" mark and a printed crown mark, color washed in green, which date this piece to circa 1818. An image of a similar Mason's drainer plate in this pattern is shown on Page 104 of "A Guide to Mason's Patent Ironstone Patterns", published by the Mason's Collectors' Club.
14 piece group / set
MEASUREMENTS;
9.5" diameter
