Rare Fradlay Art Pottery plaque, marbled slip with white sprigged classical figures, c.1870
$695.00 AUD
Rare Thomas Fradley Art Pottery plaque, with characteristic marbled rim, the center with large white sprigged classical scene of two cavorting cherubs with a wreath, on a plain ground showing the deep red of the clay.
Impressed ‘T.Fradley’
1875-85
Good condition.
Godden in his ‘Encyclopedia’ has placed Fradley in the Appendix for the ‘unknown potters’. Since then, there has been just a little light shed on him; according to ThePotteries.org ,
| Thomas Fradley
Part time manufacturer of decorative earthenware at Stoke. Fradley ware was fired at Minton’s kilns c.1875-85″ |
There’s just this same info repeated online – clearly avenue for some terrific future research….
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