Antique Reticulated Chestnut Bowl & Stand / Platter Black Transferware P J Boch Luxembourg antique black transferware This is the Aesthetic style

This is the Aesthetic style which became very popular in the 1860s s and was inspired by Japanese design

The Bell Works Pottery at Bethesda Street  has been The Potteries Museum since 1956 and houses the largest and most important collection of North Staffordshire pottery in the world

To learn more about the Aesthetic Movement and its influence on transferware

Measures Plate appx

Probably holds about a gallon

Antique Reticulated Chestnut Bowl & Stand / Platter Black Transferware P J Boch Luxembourg antique black transferware This is the Aesthetic styleHere is a very, very rare chestnut bowl and stand dating to 1834 45 by P J Boch (Pierre Joseph Boch), son of the founder of the iconic Villeroy & Boch company, which remains still in business today. Chestnut bowls rarely survived due to their very fragile nature. Chestnuts were served in these Chinese style porcelain baskets, freshly roasted and peeled, then eaten like any nut. The slotted reticulated bowl allowed the escape of steam from the hot