A "Lotus" pattern dinner service for 8 persons by Booths, England, circa 1900
A "Lotus" pattern dinner service for 8 persons by Booths, England, circa 1900
An extensive late 19th Century Ironstone dinner service, printed, painted and gilded with Oriental floral designs in iron red, green, puce and underglaze blue, Booths marks to the underside, comprising: one meat plate, one tureen and cover, eight Xcm plates, eight Xcm plates, eight Xcm soup plates, one sauce tureen with cover and a sauce boat.
Thomas Booth founded Booths in the 1850s producing earthenware sanitary and dinnerware at Tunstall. Since then the ownership of the Booths name passed through various companies including the Pearson Group, Ridgway, and becoming part of Royal Doulton in 1971, where the Booths name continued to be used until the mid-1980s.
Booths made their name by producing high-quality earthenware which they called Silicon China, a thin earthenware to compete with fine porcelain. During the early 1900s and under the direction of Charles Bowers, Booths produced many reproductions of classical blue wares using this Silicon China body, these pieces are commonly marked with the letters CB but it is the traditional oriental patterns that Booths are best known for.
Condition: some plates a little faded but generally in very good order. Please refer to photographs.
Dimensions: largest plate Xcm diameter, smallest plate Xcm diameter, soup plate Xcm diameter, meat plater Xcm long.
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