Pale blue and white antique Joseph Clementson china Pekin Sketches oval dessert plates c1839-1864
Very fine English Staffordshire grit Ironstone china pair of dessert plates with scroll molded handle detailing
Condition note, both plates have antique chips on the base rim as shown
Pekin Sketches from a series of Asiatic Scene romanticised Chinese river scenes in pale blue and white china transfer design with floral scroll borders
Joseph Clementson had apprenticed with J & W Ridgway before setting up in business with Jonah read in 1832
8.25-inch long classic English oval dessert plates 6.5-inch wide from a dessert or breakfast set
Superb patina glaze ware to plate and gadrooned rims
Date range 1839-1864 Hanley Staffordshire
In 1851 the company exhibited Asiatic Sketches at the Great Exhibition
Printed cartouche backstamp with 'Pekin Sketches', pagoda and initials JC
