A SET OF 11 NAUTILUS, SCOTLAND PORCELAIN 8 3/4" DIAMETER HAND-PAINTED PLATES IN A BLACKBERRY PATTERN.
During MacDougall & Sons, some of the finest porcelain ever to be crafted in Scotland was produced under the name “Nautilus”.
Exquisite figurines, dessert wares, tea sets, ornamental wares in fine hand-painted eggshell porcelain. The decoration has strong similarities to Limoges and the eggshell porcelain being almost identical to that produced by Belleek.
Simultaneously, in 1894, a successful China wholesaler rented part of a stoneware pottery. Despite their name, MacDougall & Sons were actually brothers. They purchased the closed Possil pottery works in 1896 and began producing porcelain wares under a trading name of “Nautilus Porcelain”. Their porcelain products were as fine as Worcester or Belleek.
The death of one brother in 1910 may have been responsible for the pottery’s closure in 1911.
THEY ARE IN UNDAMAGED CONDITION
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