Majolica Round Bread Platter with Mottled Center and Wheat, English, ca. 1875
T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Majolica Bread Platter, of round form, the mottled center, banded in yellow, the outer border with yellow wheat sheaves molded in high relief, the reverse glazed in turquoise, with impressed 'M' and painted design number '132.'
In the recently published three-volume MAJOLICA MANIA, Laura Microulis, says of the majolica produced by this firm:
"Indeed, T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. majolica was considered to be of the highest quality and was sold at premium prices through its large showrooms in London, Paris, Hamburg, as well as through a resident agent in New York."*
For 30 years we have been among the world's preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
*Laura Micoulis, "Majolica by T. C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co." in Susan Weber, MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Chapter 17, Vol Two, p. 211, full chapter on TCB-W,M & Co. pp. 211-237.
T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Majolica Bread Platter, of round form, the mottled center, banded in yellow, the outer border with yellow wheat sheaves molded in high relief, the reverse glazed in turquoise, with impressed 'M' and painted design number '132.'
In the recently published three-volume MAJOLICA MANIA, Laura Microulis, says of the majolica produced by this firm:
"Indeed, T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. majolica was considered to be of the highest quality and was sold at premium prices through its large showrooms in London, Paris, Hamburg, as well as through a resident agent in New York."*
For 30 years we have been among the world's preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
*Laura Micoulis, "Majolica by T. C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co." in Susan Weber, MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Chapter 17, Vol Two, p. 211, full chapter on TCB-W,M & Co. pp. 211-237.
T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Majolica Bread Platter, of round form, the mottled center, banded in yellow, the outer border with yellow wheat sheaves molded in high relief, the reverse glazed in turquoise, with impressed 'M' and painted design number '132.'
In the recently published three-volume MAJOLICA MANIA, Laura Microulis, says of the majolica produced by this firm:
"Indeed, T. C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. majolica was considered to be of the highest quality and was sold at premium prices through its large showrooms in London, Paris, Hamburg, as well as through a resident agent in New York."*
For 30 years we have been among the world's preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
*Laura Micoulis, "Majolica by T. C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co." in Susan Weber, MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Chapter 17, Vol Two, p. 211, full chapter on TCB-W,M & Co. pp. 211-237.
