A WEMYSS WARE SPONGE DISH AND LINER'WHITE BROOM' PATTERN, EA...
A WEMYSS WARE SPONGE DISH AND LINER
'WHITE BROOM' PATTERN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
decorated by James Sharp, painted and impressed mark WEMYSS (restored handle)
20cm diameter
Literature: Davis, Peter; De Rin, Victoria; Macmillan, David & Rankine, Robert, 'Wemyss Ware: A Decorative Scottish Pottery', Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1986, p.111, fig. 222
Note: 'White Broom' pattern was purchased as wash sets and desk sets by William Forbes J.P. for Callendar House, Falkirk. Forbes was the grandson on the maternal side of the Seventh Earl of Wemyss and white broom was the family''s cap badge.
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A WEMYSS WARE SPONGE DISH AND LINER
'WHITE BROOM' PATTERN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
decorated by James Sharp, painted and impressed mark WEMYSS (restored handle)
20cm diameter
Literature: Davis, Peter; De Rin, Victoria; Macmillan, David & Rankine, Robert, 'Wemyss Ware: A Decorative Scottish Pottery', Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1986, p.111, fig. 222
Note: 'White Broom' pattern was purchased as wash sets and desk sets by William Forbes J.P. for Callendar House, Falkirk. Forbes was the grandson on the maternal side of the Seventh Earl of Wemyss and white broom was the family''s cap badge.
