Pre 1940 Signed Hand Painted Camelia Botanical Transferware Plate English Cottage Red Toile Dish yellow and green

yellow and green

The outer border is a raised/relief  with flowers and scrolls and outwardly trimmed with a thin burgundy line

whose full name was Arthur Colley Austin Shorter (1882-1963)

Each side of the coffeepot depicts a Colonial Victorian home set against a lake with a sailboat on the water

Pre 1940 Signed Hand Painted Camelia Botanical Transferware Plate English Cottage Red Toile Dish yellow and greenVintage Crown Ducal hand painted botanical plate depicting Camelias. The plate is artist signed R E Hague just below the leaves. The main pattern is transfer printed with highlights, accents, shading and color all hand painted by one of the English potteries finest, well known artists. The artist, Reuben Hague was born in 1880 and by the time he was just 13 years old he was apprenticed as a China painter at Royal Crown Derby. He later worked as a