STAFFORDSHIRE TRANSFER-PRINTED CERAMIC TABLE ARTICLES, LOT OF 12, including two cup plates including one with Harpist and Castle pattern, a pickle dish featuring a large manor home in landscape, a 6" D plate featuring "Doctor Syntax / and / Dairy Maid", a 9 1/2" D bowl with Waterfall/Falls of Killarney pattern, a soup plate with "Palestine. / R. Stevenson", a 13 1/8" x 10 1/8" platter having "VENTURE" scene, a sauce tureen with undertray featuring Canova pattern, and a sauce ladle, Marks to underside include impressed crown encircled with "CLEWS WARRANTED STAFFORDSHIRE", "Davenport", and "STEVENSON". John & Richard Riley, Burslem; Ralph & James Clews, Cobridge; Ralph Stevenson, Cobridge; Ralph Hammersley, Tunstall & Burslem, England; and others. 19th century. 7 3/4" to 10 1/8" D plates.
Literature: Transferware Collectors Club database patterns #2331, #7481, #9654, #10326, #11330, #18697, #18824. Six undamaged, except some having expected usage wear including light short scattered scratches; platter having some glaze flakes; Doctor Syntax plate with rim hairline and light discoloration; pickle dish broken and glued; ladle with bowl hairline; sauce tureen with chip to foot and spot of exfoliation to interior; Waterfall bowl with some scattered chips to foot ring and chip and flake to rim.