Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire The painting is oil on

The painting is oil on board and comes framed in a wood and linen gold leaf frame

Then he went headhunting in Stoke on Trent and  engaged

honey amber glaze

Measures:  Appx 5” handle to spout x 21/2” high

Hand Painted Transferware Pedestal Compote Plate Bee Skep Plate Thatched Cottage English Garden Antique Staffordshire The painting is oil on"There is probably no object so much a natural part of the English landscape, nor which makes such a direct appeal to the heart and imagination, as the old country cottage". This perfectly charming 17th century cottage in Luddington Warwickshire (misspelled on the plate with only one D), now part of Stratford on Avon, is featured in the 1906 antique book entitled "Old English Country Cottages" on page 131 in the section which features the gardens,