Antique W H Grindley Melbourne Flow Blue and White China 9-inch Dessert Plate

Antique W H Grindley and Co Ltd Melbourne pattern flow blue and gilt 9-inch dessert plate

• 9-inch diameter scallop rimmed salad or dessert plate
  
• 1890 Grindley china marks
• Melbourne pattern with hand applied gilt detailing
• Flow Blue and white transfer pattern with moulded detailing around the rim
  
• Ironstone Staffordshire china.
• The glaze has some linear crazing as shown in the video
  
• Melbourne flow blue in increasingly rare and one of the most beautiful of the late 19th Century Flow Blue designs.
• There is moderate gilt loss affecting one of these plates.
• Grindley Melbourne mixes very well with Grindley Florida and Celtic designs from the same era.