10 Blue & White Ceramic Plates/Bowl

Diameter: 9.75 inches (J. Holland plate) Diameter: 9.5 inches (Adams & Sons, Castle Candolfo, and Sobraon plates) Diameter: 9 inches (Woods Ware and Regout plates) Diameter: 7.5 inches (Scalloped flow blue plate) Diameter: 7.25 inches (Blue leaf plate) Diameter: 7 inches (Polychrome plate) Diameter: 6.25 inches (Blue Willow pair). A collection of ten ceramic plates and shallow bowls, primarily comprised of English and European transferware earthenware and ironstone. The group includes various landscape, romantic, and floral patterns. One octagonal shallow plate features a flow blue floral design. The base bears a blue transfer-printed cartouche containing the name SOBRAON. A scalloped-rim plate depicts a classical landscape with figures and a statue. The underside displays a blue transfer mark with a ribbon reading J. HOLLAND, an oval with the name CARRARA, and a British diamond registration mark. Another scalloped plate shows a romantic garden scene with architectural ruins and a fountain. The backstamp features a crest with a lion and a figure holding a trident above a ribbon reading W. ADAMS & SONS. The central circle of the mark reads ISOLA BELLA and STONE CHINA, accompanied by an impressed number 8. A landscape plate with a castle and figures on horseback features a transfer mark on the base depicting a standing dog. The text curve around the bottom reads CASTLE CANDOLFO. Above the dog is a ribbon with TRADE MARK and the initials E. M. & Co. The mark also includes the letter B and the word ITALY. A shallow soup plate with a Chinoiserie landscape has a base mark reading TIMOR above a rectangle containing P. REGOUT & Co. MAASTRICHT and a sphinx device. A shallow bowl with a Chinoiserie scene features a crest mark on the underside reading WOODS WARE, CANTON, WOOD & SONS, ENGLAND, ENOCH 1784, and RALPH 1750. The collection includes a pair of small plates decorated in a traditional Blue Willow pattern. The marks on the reverse are obscured by heavy crazing and staining. A small polychrome plate is decorated with hand-painted red, green, and pink enamels over a blue transfer print of figures in a garden; no maker marks are visible. A small flow blue plate features a molded, scalloped rim and floral decoration. The base is marked with an impressed number 4 and two illegible blue stamps. The final piece is a small plate with a blue leaf border and central motif. It bears an illegible blue circular mark on the base.