Antique Signed Hand Painted Hydrangeas Botanical Transferware Plate English Cottage Antique Staffordshire RARE PEACEFUL SUMMER PLATE

RARE PEACEFUL SUMMER PLATE

So pretty and so hard to find in purple

This bowl has an oriental motif' depicting a Chinese garden in a lacustrine setting

the best I can tell is that it is:

The plate is artist signed R E Hague just below the leaves

Antique Signed Hand Painted Hydrangeas Botanical Transferware Plate English Cottage Antique Staffordshire RARE PEACEFUL SUMMER PLATEVintage Crown Ducal hand painted botanical plate depicting Pink and blue Hydrangeas. The plate is artist signed R E Hague just below the leaves. The main pattern is transfer printed with highlights, accents, shading and color all hand painted by one of the English potteries finest, well known artists. The artist, Reuben Hague was born in 1880 and by the time he was just 13 years old he was apprenticed as a China painter at Royal Crown Derby. He later