Shell-Edge Neale & Co. Puce Transfer Creamware Set of Ten Plates

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The Neale & Co. puce-coloured shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst … more The Neale & Co. puce-coloured shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst a landscape of classic ruins. The rims, also with a feathered puce (purple) border, are highlighted with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding. Each is impressed with the Neale & Co. mark on the reverse.

Marks: The impressed Neale & Co mark was only used between 1778 and 1795.

Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors iana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand from the same service from the Division of Ceramics & Glass, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. acc no. 65.48.

The author writes on page 133, that shell-edged wares and other enamelled rim-decorated wares in turquoise, puce or black, often embellished with a central transfer-printed panel, constituted a sizable portion of the decoration on creamware... less