Price Points: Decorative wall plates

Sometimes plates are just too pretty to keep hidden away in a cupboard; too beautiful to dare eat off. This selection of decorative wall plates deserves to be shown off!

They’re works of art that deserve to be treated as such; mount them on a plain wall or lean them on special little stands to display them to full effect.

Ceramic fish shaped decorative hanging plates: £4.28 to £64.76, Etsy
VILLEROY & BOCH Anmut Flowers bread and butter plate – 16cm: £21.90, Selfridges
London Calling plates – set of 4 by Royal Doulton: £40, Amara

Salad Ware

It’s very surprising that in our ten years of trading as H is for Home (and in the vintage ‘hobby years’ prior to that), we’ve never actually bought a piece of Terence Conran designed ‘Salad Ware’. Well, as of this morning, those days are over.

Here’s our lovely new plate with its classic vintage 1950s design of fruit and vegetables.

We love the shapes and colours… and its pared back simplicity. We even like the radish-shaped back stamp detail. It still looks modern today – imagine the impact it made over 60 years ago.

We might just have to stroke this piece a while before selling. Well, the house walls are newly painted, there’s a small space available… and it did come with hanging hooks!

A mysterious gentlewoman

This lovely large pottery charger was one of our more interesting finds last week.

We were wondering how to describe the subject matter. An elegantly dressed gentlewoman we figured – contemplating the day at the tea table with her cut flower and songbird.

It’s beautifully hand-painted and despite the piece being signed front and back, the artist was initially a mystery. But after some research, we’ve solved it! It’s the work of Laila Zink (1915-1999) for Finnish manufacturer Kupittaan Savi and dates from the 1950s/60s. It’s always good to keep learning!

It measures 36cm x 30cm and has holes to the reverse for hanging. It certainly makes for a very striking piece of midcentury modern wall art. She’ll be coming to our web shop very soon, but first dibs to our blog readers – priced at £175.

It’s a bit Fishy

Last week, we featured a wonderful set of vintage bull plates – this week we have some equally fantastic fish plates!

We bought five of the set in a single purchase and then managed to track down the missing plate in the following days.

It’s now a fabulous and complete set of six.

They’re highly stylised with beautiful detailing – dancing air bubbles, fluttering scales and swirling fins. We certainly haven’t seen anything similar in the local rivers or canals!

They’re from the Aquarius range produced by Washington Pottery in the 1960s. In 1970, Washington Pottery became English Ironstone Pottery Ltd. Three years later, it became English Ironstone Tableware Ltd, so you can trace the age of an item from its back stamp.

As with the bull plates, these colourful fish plates would look amazing displayed on a long shelf or mounted on a wall. Both types are listed in our web shop.

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Price Points: Decorative wall plates

Salad Ware

A mysterious gentlewoman

It’s a bit Fishy