Vintage Staffordshire Plates: Indian Tree Pattern, Hand-Colored Set of 14 jewellry box Traditionally used for cooking and

Traditionally used for cooking and preserving meats in the days before refrigerators

and smaller examples like this are increasingly sought after

making surviving examples highly collectible today

and age-related marks consistent with long domestic use

Boulenger of Choisy-le-Roi

Vintage Staffordshire Plates: Indian Tree Pattern, Hand-Colored Set of 14 jewellry box Traditionally used for cooking andA SET of 14 vintage plates by Washington, Stoke on Trent, England in a classic India Tree design, a staple design of Staffordshire pottery since the early Victorian era. Stamped for Washington pottery with a mark in use after 1935, but before dishwasher safe markings introduced in the late 1960s. Hand painted decoration, primarily in pink, sepia and green, with blue and yellow accents, over a dark ochre transferware printed outline. Sold as a SET of