Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries | #4 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Pattern_Dickensware It has has full Cedar

It has has full Cedar construction with a crossbanded one plank top and one plank sides

James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer

(Gloucester Old Spotted Pig)

but around 1885 his son Emil Fischer started running the business

Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries | #4 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Pattern_Dickensware It has has full CedarEarly Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Flowers and Blackberries This work has been executed on a fine quality MZ Austria blank signed on the underside of base in full Ethel L Thomas 1909 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