Antique Joseph Clementson Pekin Sketches Blue and White China Dinner Plate

Pale blue and white antique Joseph Clementson china Pekin Sketches dinner plate c1839-1864

• Very fine English Staffordshire grit Ironstone china dinner plate
• 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
  
• 10.25-inch classic English dinner plate
  
• 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
• This is a very nice piece of increasingly rare antique pale blue and white ironstone china with all the evidence of almost 200 years use.
  
• Rare opportunity to acquire four at the time of listing. We are also listing two dessert plates in 18th Century shape and a large platter.