Rare Linn Ware hand painted ceramic platter with abstracted floral/botanical motif 1950

Offered for sale is a rare/hard to find example of hand painted Linn Ware produced by the "artistic division" of the famous Linn Ware ceramic studio which was based in Cullinan Olifantsfontein on the East Rand of Johannesburg. This is a hand made platter thrown on a potters wheel and made from red bodied clay glazed in a matte  white glaze, and hand painted with an abstracted floral/botanical motif in the roundel and a border of  green radiating colour bars with hand painted straight and scalloped lines in a inky blue  and shell pink tone forming an attractive visual accent. The central motif suggests a possible influence of Iznik pottery designs or the popular Royal Doulton Frank Brangwyn designed motifs from the 1940's. The plate is signed on the back with the artists initials T V S  and date marked 1950 and the studio name Linn Ware . Dr Melanie Hillebrand has identified some of the  artists who decorated the hand painted Linn Ware items in the 1940's/50's in her publication The Women of Olifanstsfontein; South African Studio Ceramics 1991 published by the National  Art Gallery in Cape Town . This painter remains unknown ; documented  artists include the sisters Ruth and Rhoda Baber, A Gunn and I Reich.

Postage is R100 via Postnet or courier . Collection is welcome from Emmerantia Jhb.