Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries | #4 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Pattern_Dickensware Try and find one solitary

Try and find one solitary person with this level of artisinal skill today - they will command a tall price

(Gloucester Old Spotted Pig)

It has has full Cedar construction with a crossbanded one plank top and one plank sides

James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer

but around 1885 his son Emil Fischer started running the business

Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries | #4 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Pattern_Dickensware Try and find one solitaryEarly Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries This work has been executed on a fine quality MZ Austria blank signed on the underside of base in full Ethel L Thomas 1909 Provenance: this piece [and many others to come] were purchased from the family of Ethel Lawry Thomas [later post marriage known as Ethel Lawry Medcalf]. She was a known exhibitor at the 1907 Melbourne exhibition see here The first Australian