• Style:
Pictorial, humorous
• Technique: Painted & gilded
• Maker: T. C. Brown-Westhead,
Moore
• Dimensions:
8" x 8"
• Date: 1880 (circa)
• Condition: Near perfect
• Price: £840 (approx. $1000)
• Ref: 07524
A rare example of this famous company's wares
exquisitely painted and gilded. Gilding to the
title and metalwares illustrated, the knife and
sword handles and scabbards and shoe
buckles.
The title approximately translates to, "brave
heart attains the kingdom," and is presumably
akin to the English, "faint heart never won fair
lady."
Once the largest pottery in the England with
works occupying nearly 80 acres it exported much
to Europe, had showrooms in Paris and Hamburg,
made for other retailers and supplied
royalty.
Few of its better wares are marked and the
name relatively unknown compared to Mintons,
Wedgwood and others keen to market their brand,
as often is the case the greatest wares are made
by those who do not put a great effort in to
marketing just in to producing great
products.
This is unmarked however I have had an
example of this tile, a dust-pressed example so
presumably 1885 or so unfortunately broken from
side to side and badly glued together, still
irresistable in that condition it bears the
embossed maker's mark verso.
Verso clean, unmarked.
One slight mark on the painting.
