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Mason's Patent Ironstone China Plate
“Table & Urn”Exotic motifs including a vase with peonies, baton, duck with nest of eggs and the table with bowl of fruit become merely decorative in Mason's heavily enamelled taupe brown transfer. Colours include slate blue, pink, yellow, orange, peach and green.Date Mark: Transfer printed crown with banner (colour washed with the last paint colour of the day) also showing a round impressed circle mark, 1813 – 1820.Dimensions: 240 mm diameter x 21 mm high.Condition: The plate decoration is worn, the gilt is worn and there is a chip on the base rim. Sadly this is so, as it is a valuable plate!Sold as seen in the images. Images form part of the description.Some History………….Early Mason's Patent Ironstone ChinaIn July 1813 Charles James Mason, the third son of Miles Mason, took out his famous patent for 'Ironstone China'. Production had begun at the old Minerva Works in Lane Delph a month or so before the patent was published and wares from this period have impressed 'Mason's Patent Ironstone China' either in one line or split into two. By 1830 the more familiar printed crown marks were being used. Occasionally pieces from this period can be found with both the impressed and printed marks. (Other firms soon began producing their own versions of Ironstone China and these often have similar impressed marks, but only Mason's used the word 'Patent').