6 ANTIQUE MINTON GREEN BORDER ORANGE BAND LEMON 9” PLATES c1912 UNUSED! CLARICE

Now if I hadn’t researched the backstamp on this Minton plates I would of dated them slap bang in the Art Deco period because of the colours used, the lemon plates bordered with green that had then been highlighted with an orange band both outside and inside that green band just sings out the decadent time of the 20s and 30s, set like I say the back stamp paints a different picture.

Mainly because it was first used in 1891 and then changed again in 1912 just prior to WW1 so plum inside Edwardian England

So as a Stoke lad born and bread lets romance a little here, the plates are c1912 at the latest, Mintons pottery was a mere four miles from where a certain Clarice Cliff lived, now she was born in 1899 and started work as a gilder at a local unnamed pottery adding gold lines around the edges of plates, much the same as these orange ones, of course later in the 20s when she started her own ideas at Newport a lot of her early work also had gilded lines not of gold but of oranges blues greens etc

Could there be a link???? Who knows

But what I can tell you also is these came out of a loft clearance in the Westlands area of Clayton, what’s the relevance of that you might think, well Clarice Cliff lived somewhere in the Clayton area of Stoke on Trent until she passed away in 1972

Makes you wonder doesn’t it, never be proven though and may just be romance, but the dates match up, the colours were certainly used by her in the 20s and 30s

Anyway, enough romance, in the real world today, these are still amazing because they are certainly antique but they are also totally unused just put in a loft and forgotten until now

There are 6 of these plates that are 9 inch diameter, so good lunches, salads etc

There are two sets of six at time of listing, just in case you wanted them all

Also though found with these were 8 x 7 inch sandwich plates, so please seek them out