Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire BLUE & WHITE BROWN FLORAL

BLUE & WHITE BROWN FLORAL CHINTZ TRANSFER WARE STAFFORDSHIRE CATS

This is a great piece to add to your collection of vintage English transferware or just as a decorative touch to your home

The plate depicts a an assortment of airy botanicals in an assymetrical pattern

20" square in shades of black/ white and gray

Bright red face mask

Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire BLUE & WHITE BROWN FLORAL"There is probably no object so much a natural part of the English landscape, nor which makes such a direct appeal to the heart and imagination, as the old country cottage". This perfectly charming 17th century cottage in Luddington Warwickshire (misspelled on the plate with only one D), now part of Stratford on Avon, is featured in the 1906 antique book entitled "Old English Country Cottages" on page 131 in the section which features the gardens,