Description:
The firm of Ralph Hall (later and Son) was principally involved in the American export trade. The surviving examples of its output demonstrate the changing fashions in the American trade over the life of the business. The early examples feature several series of blue printed wares of the intense deep blue popular in the 1820s, such as ‘Select Views’ and ‘Picturesque Scenery’. The later output was characterised by romantic rather than representational patterns printed in a range of ‘fancy’ colors. Circular press molded plate composed of pearlware with slight indentations on the rim; plate has a cupped rim and a shallow center well, the whole front of the plate is transfer printed in underglaze blue with a border of flowers and fruits, the central decoration shows a stately country home with a steeple in the background, and a pond with boater and large tree in the foreground; printed on the reverse of the plate in underglaze blue in a floral ribbon cartouche, "R. HALL'S/ FULHAM/ Church,/ MIDDLESEX./ PICTURESQUE SCENERY." From the Transferware Collector's Club database: All Saint's Church lies near Putney Bridge on the River Thames. The tower was built in 1440 in the perpendicular style. Before 1845, as can be seen from many old paintings and prints, it was surmounted by a picturesque octagonal wooden spire enclosing the flagstaff and was popularly known as the 'pepper box'. This was eventually removed because it was considered to be 'incongruous'.
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