Halfway House, A Plate by Coalport, Painted by William Shayer

Title: Halfway House, A Plate by Coalport, Painted by William Shayer.
Manufactured by: Coalport, Made In England.
Series: English Masterpieces Series.
Info: Painted By William Shayer 1788-1879.
From a collection of four plaques by the masters John Constable and William Shayer.
William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs. He moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing heraldic painting. Ultimately, he began painting oil on canvas and became skilled at portraying woodland scenes with gypsies, people and animals in front of country inns and farm houses, and beach scenes crowded with boats and fishermen.
The Coalport porcelain manufactory, the first porcelain factory in the Ironbridge Gorge, England, was founded by the practical and enterprising John Rose in 1795 and was run for many years as a family business.
Under the management of his son Charles Bruff from 1889, an extensive export trade to the United States and Canada was initiated in the 1890s, and the works were rebuilt on the original site in 1902.
During the 1920s it fell again into financial difficulties and was eventually taken over by the Cauldon Potteries, Ltd., of Shelton, Staffordshire, in 1925. In 1926 production moved to Staffordshire, the traditional centre of the ceramics industry in Britain, and, although the Coalport name was retained as a brand, in 1967 the company became part of the Wedgwood group. Wikipedia
Diameter: 19.5cm.
Condition: Excellent.
Price: R 295.00 Inc Vat.