Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers | #3 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Taylor On a Side Panel:

On a Side Panel:

Royal Doulton Coaching Days square plate

Stieff handed the reins of the company to his son Gideon Stieff in 1914

Approx 18 cms (7") wide

5cms (6 1/2") wide handle to handle

Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers | #3 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Taylor On a Side Panel:Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers This work has been executed on a fine quality MZ Austria blank signed on the underside of base in full Ethel L Thomas 1908 Provenance: this piece [and many others to come] were purchased from the family of Ethel Lawry Thomas [later post marriage known as Ethel Lawry Medcalf]. She was a known exhibitor at the 1907 Melbourne exhibition see here The first Australian