HUGE Antique Aesthetic Movement Transferware Platter Brown Polychrome Geometric Medallions Castle Scenery Brownfield & Sons

$349.99

Brand Brownfield & Sons

Circa 1871-1890
Brownfield & Sons
Brown Polychrome Transferware Platter - Turkey Sized
Wisconsin pattern depicting a stately cattle nested into the hillside and set within a rust painted triangle with four flowers of geometric medallion proportion, so indicative of the Aesthetic Movement. There is subtle painting of rust, blue and green which has been worn in areas. Beautiful piece!

Measures 20" x 15.5"
Condition: Heavy crazing, commensurate to age. Some inner wear to the rust/roangy frame around the ship as it is handpainted. No chips or cracks.  

BROWNFlELD, William (1812-73), pottery manufacturer, Hanley, Staffordshire England.

William Brownfield was born in Hanley in February of 1812 to Ralph Brownfield, earthenware manufacturer and Sarah Nee Meigh. After working as a commercial traveller for his father's firm he joined the firm of Robinson and Wood.

He favoured Hanley's incorporation as a borough (Staffordshire towns) and in 1858 became Hanley's mayor in succession to John Ridgway (another very famous Staffordshire potter). He was a borough and county magistrate and later a deputy lieutenant. He was a director of the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company and of the North Staffordshire Railway.

WB died in l873. A red marble obelisk in Hanley cemetery commemorates his life as a famous Staffordshire potter.

Read about the Aesthetic Movement here:
http://nancysdailydish.blogspot.com/2010/03/aesthetic-movement-and-transferware.html