Vintage Art Deco Anemone Teacup and Saucer – Bold Pink Yellow Flowers, Black Geometric Banding, Hand Painted, England 1930s

Pink, yellow, and white anemones crowd the rim — their petals wide open, their centres stamped with a single dot of red — and between each bloom, a pair of black Art Deco arcs sweeps through the composition like the leading of a stained-glass window. The effect is graphic and immediate: colour held inside geometry, flowers that feel more like a poster than a garden.

The cup sits on a low pedestal foot, its body flaring gently into a wide mouth. A thin gilt line rings the mid-body and the lip. The loop handle is small and neatly curved. Inside the cup, the same ring of anemones and black banding repeats — so the pattern is visible whether the cup sits on its saucer or is lifted to drink. Small triple-dot motifs fill the spaces between blooms, a quiet geometric counterpoint to the exuberant flowers.

This is English Art Deco at its boldest — the style that swept through Staffordshire potteries in the 1930s, replacing Edwardian delicacy with flat colour, strong outlines, and an almost illustrative quality. The decoration uses black-outline transfer with hand-painted colour — a technique that gives each flower a crisp, printed edge while allowing the painted fill to vary slightly from piece to piece. The backstamp carries a stylised S mark above "Made in England" — a device consistent with several Longton bone china houses of the period, including Salisbury China (est. 1927) and Sampson Smith.