April 12, 2024
Royal Staffordshire Flow Blue IRIS Luncheon Plates
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Up for auction is a LOT of SIX (6) beautiful luncheon plates in the elegant flow blue Royal Staffordshire IRIS pattern, ca. 1897. The plates are 8-7/8" in diameter, so I'm calling them luncheon plates as I've seen larger dinner plates and smaller salad plates. They are a lovely shade of cobalt, with a garland of iris flowers around the rim and what I believe to be 22k gilding accenting the iris pattern and rim (See Photo). The bottom of each plate bears THREE marks - an inkstamp reading "IRIS" Royal Stafforshire Pottery, Burslem, England; and incised mark reading "417" (clearer on some of the plates than others, but they all have it - See Photo) AND a small gilt mark on each plate that is either a number or letter (See Photo). All of the plates are in what I would call Very Fine condition. Only one of the six has crazing front and back, and you have to look at it in a strong light to see it - it's not discolored. All six have some miniscule bubbles in the glazing and some small blue specks of "flow" in the white portion of the pattern, both of which I believe to be normal. All have some blue flow on the underside, as if it had "washed" over the edge, making the rim of the underside pale blue. One plate has a miniscule chip in the rim - you are hard pressed to find it without looking very hard. One has a small yellowed line in
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