Thomas Wolfe & Co ‘Love’s Altar’ purple & lustre bat print, c.1810

$135.00 AUD

English Porcelain coffee can, bat-printed in purple with ‘Love’s Altar’, a standing maiden before an altar with two doves, cupids bow, a classical urn to one side, a purple lustre band to the rim.
Unmarked, attributed to ‘Factory Z’,
Thomas Wolfe & Co
Circa 1810

6cm H
crack to handle

Factory Z was the name given in the late 20th century to a series of teawares made by a distinct factory. Research in the early 21st has identified it as the work of Thomas Wolfe & Co. Originating in Liverpool 1792-1818, he was operating in Stoke-on-Trent boy the late 1790’s, and died there in 1818.

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