Antique 

circa 1880s

Majolica Aesthetic Movement Plate 

Japanese Theme Bird & Fan Pattern 

SHORTER & BOULTON 

Plate measures approximately 9 1/2" in diameter

the following is excerpted from the website thepotteries.org

Earthenware and Majolica manufacturer at Copeland Street, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent

• The partners were Arthur Shorter and James Boulton

• Shorter and Boulton did a large business in majolica in the USA. 

Their work is almost always unmarked 

• In 1891 Arthur Shorter left the running of the business to James Boulton and Shorter managed the company established by his brother-in-law A. J. Wilkinson following the latter’s accidental death. 

• In 1897 Bolton's son, William, took over the running of the business.

• In 1900 Arthur Shorter’s younger son John Guy Shorter became manager and by 1905 the company had become Shorter & Son. 

Condition:

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