Description:
English Staffordshire oval dish with flat, scalloped brim, sloping sides, and flat base. The dish is decorated with transfer printed, "flow blue" scene in cobalt blue. The scene depicts landscape with mountains and oriental buildings in the background and two seated ladies and a man in the foreground; the printed border has four small vignettes and rococo foliage. Starting in the 1840s and continuing throughout the 19th century, "flow blue" ceramics were extremely popular in the American market. The cobalt blue tended to run because the glaze mixtures containing florine and chlorine were smeared onto the protective boxes or saggars. The underside of the base is printed in underglaze blue with an eagle with a rococo cartouche, "BURGESS & LEIGH/ NONPAREIL" and "MIDDLEPORT POTTERY/ENGLAND", and impressed into body are "8" and "PG". According to family tradition of the donor, the teapot belonged to her grandmother, Mrs. Allethaire Estey (187?-1953) of Brattleboro, Vermont. Harry Estey's family were residents of Brattleboro, and they met while Allethaire's family summered in Brattleboro. Her family was from Louisville, KY.
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