SET OF SIX CHURCHILL CHINA BLUE WILLOW PATTERN DINNER PLATES

DESCRIPTION:

A set of six ivory glazed china dinner plates, decorated with a traditional cobalt blue and
white transfer-printed Myott Old Willow design. It tells the story of a rich man's daughter
who falls in love with her father's assistant. The father disapproves of the relationship
and bans the assistant from the house, forcing them to elope. When they are found, the
assistant is killed. The daughter sets fire to the house, dying in the flames. They reunite
in death as two birds, seen at the top of the design. The eponymous willow symbolises sadness.

MARKS:

Lion, Churchill, Made in England and Est 1795. In 1991 the Churchill Group of Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, bought Myott and acquired the rights to use their Old Willow design.

CONDITION:

As new, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

DIMENSIONS:

Each plate approximately 26.5cm in diameter X 2cm in height.