NZ Historical Ceramics Database

 

 
       
     
   

PATTERN INFORMATION

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Formosa ()

Description: Technique: Transfer-printArchaeological Notes: The only pattern with this name recorded in Coysh and Henrywood (1984:145) is characterised as a dark flown blue design produced by T.J & J. Mayer on dinnerwares. The Formosa pattern recovered from His Majesty?s is a flown blue chinoiserie design, but it is rendered on both bathroom and dinnerwares and includes the manufacturer?s initials ?S. B & Co?. No conclusive attribution to a manufacturer can be made

COLOURS

Flown Blue

SITES

R11/1624His Majesty's Theatre
R09/627Miner's Bay, Kawau Island
   
 
 
 
   
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