Antique Artist Signed English Butterflies Series Plate Relief Border Tiger Swallowtail & Viceroy Framed Prints dinner plates and platters

dinner plates and platters

From England's John Maddock and Sons potteries is this feminine plate in the Alhambra pattern

It has a stunning transfer printed border of dancing cherubs on a mustard ground with gilt accents and embossed side handle

It is a VERY heavy stoneware golden honey / mustard colored

There is some crazing which is commensurate to age

Antique Artist Signed English Butterflies Series Plate Relief Border Tiger Swallowtail & Viceroy Framed Prints dinner plates and plattersvintage Painted Bird & Butterfly Plate Royal Cauldon Artist Signed Holmes Gray For consideration is this antique plate from a rare series called Butterflies of the World by Royal Cauldon. This plate looks a lot like creamware with an all over impressed embossed wide border design done with much intricacy. It depicts two types of butterfly: Viceroy Liminitis Archippus and Tiger Swallowtail Papilio Glaucus The artist John Holmes Gray was born in