Antique Royal Albert Crown China Garden Trellis Teacup & Saucer – Hand-Painted Cabbage Roses, Black Lattice, Pattern 4429, England 1930s

A Royal Albert teacup and saucer from the firm's Crown China decade — the brief 1925–1935 window when Royal Albert used that specific backstamp, before rebranding to "Royal Albert Bone China" in 1935. The pattern is a true Edwardian-to-Deco hybrid: a fine black diamond trellis set the way a real garden lattice would be, with pink cabbage roses, deep-burgundy anemones, periwinkle forget-me-nots, and small purple wildflowers tumbling across it in hand-painted polychrome. The rim and foot carry a fine 22K gilt line. Inside the cup, the pattern continues around the upper band — the painted garden visible to the drinker as the tea level falls.

Royal Albert, founded 1896 in Longton, took its name from the future King Edward VII (Prince Albert) and held its first Royal Warrant from him in 1904. The Crown China mark sits in a tight ten-year window — every piece in this batch is antique, ninety to one-hundred years old, made before the firm's mid-century mass-market pivot. The hand-painted floral work on Crown China pieces is noticeably finer than the transfer-heavy Bone China era that followed: more colour layers, looser brush, real shadow in the petals.

This is the third Royal Albert Crown China listing in the shop — pairing with Buttercup (#83, yellow chintz on the same lattice) and Indian Tree (#94, Anglo-Indian botanical) for a small Antique Crown China group spanning Royal Albert's most collectable mark window.

A cup-and-saucer for the Royal Albert collector chasing the antique Crown China decade, for the cottagecore / cottage-garden interior, for the high tea host who wants pre-WWII English china, or as a 90th-birthday / Mother's Day / anniversary gift.