Vintage 1930s Crown Ford F & Sons Burslem China England Art Deco Cornflower

Wonderful Large Platter made by Crown Ford (F & Sons Ltd) Burslem Pottery - the design is Cornflower The plate has a lovely patina due it to being almost 100 years old and used continuously by my family. The cornflowers are a beautiful purple with green stems and the colours have stayed vibrant. Length 48.5 cm Width 35 cm Height 4.3 cm Weight Kg 2,63 Burslem in Staffordshire was one of the famous six ‘pottery towns’ and immortalised in the novels of Arnold Bennett as ‘Bursley’. The firm Thomas Ford and Sons began its production there in the late nineteenth century, continuing until 1938 when the business was purchased by Oswald Shufflebottom who renamed it Ford & Sons (Crownford) Ltd. The trade name ‘Crownford’ had been adopted quite early on by the Ford family and was kept by the Shufflebottom family until the late 1980s. The ‘Crownford Burslem’ wares were mostly produced in the fashionable Art Deco style during the late 1920s and 1930s and this platter is a fine and representative example of their work.