1840s "Ailanthus" Gothic Ironstone Transferware Platter

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Description: Featured in this auction, just in time for the holidays, is a superb transferware platter with Gothic lines decorated in the "Ailanthus" pattern, which was produced by the pottery of C. and W.K. Harvey in Longton, Staffordshire in the 1840s or early 1850s (the pottery stopped operating in 1853). The pattern owes its name to the Chinese tree Ailanthus, otherwise known as "the tree of heaven".Applied on an ironstone body the central scene, which takes up most of the well, depicts a beautifully detailed and quite complex in its composition landscape that incorporates most of the elements found in Romantic Staffordshire iconography. Tall, exotic (Ailanthus?) trees and luscious vegetation flank a group of people in "Oriental" garb as they are having their picnic by the river. A city with minarets, domed buildings and long, multi-arched bridges can be seen in the background while a gorgeous, monumental vase with a warrior on his charriot directs the eye to a party of men absorbed in their lively debate far behind it. The decoration is carried over to the surround, w smaller, simpler versions of the central motif are repeated six times.The platter measures 13 1/4" in length and is 10 1/4" wide. It is appropriately marked on its underside both with an impressed and a printed signature in underglaze blue that provide the name read more

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