MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE PLATE Diameter: 22.5 cm
Elegant Mason's Patent Ironstone China deep dinner plate, decorated in the famous "Mandalay" motif, one of the most representative and sought-after of English manufacturing in the early nineteenth century.
The plate has a slightly wavy shaped edge, characteristic of Regency shapes, and is embellished with a printed and hand painted decoration on an ivory background. The decoration develops with rich polychrome floral motifs - peonies and stylized flowers in shades of pink, iron red, green and yellow - intertwined with foliate scrolls in intense cobalt blue with gold highlights, according to an orientalizing taste reinterpreted in a European key.
The central cable is animated by elegant spirals and small floral motifs, while the brim is marked by a refined alternation of flowers and scrolls, giving balance and movement to the whole. The quality of the print and subsequent hand painting testifies to a high level of production
On the back there is the printed brand "Mason's - Patent Ironstone - Mandalay - Made in England", with crown, accompanied by the number "80", identifying the shape or production batch, consistent with the production of the first decade of the 20th century.
State of conservation: Excellent
Collector's note: the Mandalay decoration represents one of the most iconic expressions of Mason's Regency ceramics. Due to its size and decorative quality, this plate is suitable both as a single collector's item and as a completion of a Mandalay service, proving particularly appreciated by collectors of English ironstone and early nineteenth-century British ceramics.
Measurement: diameter cm. 22.5
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