Vases & Home Décor
Antique Royal Worcester Painted Fruit Saucer Signed Flexman – Apples Plums, Gilded Well, Puce Mark Dated 1922, Small Cabinet Dish
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- Type
- Saucer, sold on its own (no cup)
- Maker
- Royal Worcester, England
- Artist
- Signed Flexman to the painting
- Era
- 1922, by the factory year mark
- Decoration
- Hand-painted apples and plums on a mossy ground; solid gilded and burnished centre well; gilt rim line
- Material
- Bone china with gilding
- Size
- ~3.5" / 9 cm diameter; gilded well ~1.2" / 3 cm — it held a very small cup
- Markings
- Puce printed crowned Worcester circle, Royal Worcester England, with a star and six dots beneath for 1922; impressed shape number
Backstamp & Pattern
- Maker
- Royal Worcester, England
- Era
- 1922, by the factory year mark
- Mark on base
- Puce printed crowned Worcester circle, Royal Worcester England, with a star and six dots beneath for 1922; impressed shape number
Royal Worcester's crowned roundel carries a system of dots and marks around it that can often date a piece to the year.
Read about this maker’s marks in the guide → How to date English china →
