STAFFORDSHIRE DOCTOR SYNTAX TRANSFER-PRINTED CERAMIC TABLE ARTICLES, LOT OF THREE,
comprising a small platter having "Doctor Syntax / setting out on / his second tour", and two plates including "Doctor Syntax / reading his / Tour" and "Doctor Syntax / drawing after / Nature." Each having printed pattern name to underside and one having impressed crown encircled with "CLEWS WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE".
Ralph & James Clews, Cobridge, England.
1814–1834.
Platter 9 3/4" x 7".
Literature: Parallels the Armans -
Historical Staffordshire, An Illustrated Check-List,p. 28, #44, p.30, #47; p. 31, #50; Transferware Collectors Club database pattern #4763 and #8202.
Provenance: From the estate of Josephine Weidman, Cleveland, OH.
Condition
Second tour example with chip to lower rim; Reading His Tour example having hairline to center, primarily visible to underside due to decoration; Nature example with chip to rim underside and scattered short hairlines to underside that do not go through to front, possibly as made.
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