{"product_id":"royal-winton-grimwades-rosebud-open-sugar-bowl-and-footed-bowl-airbrushed-yellow-to-green-ombre-with-gilt-rims-stoke-on-trent-after-1929","title":"Royal Winton Grimwades “Rosebud” Open Sugar Bowl and Footed Bowl, Airbrushed Yellow-to-Green Ombré with Gilt Rims, Stoke-on-Trent, After 1929","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo pieces of English earthenware in a graded wash of colour, with the maker's name printed in green under each foot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first is an open sugar bowl: a footed ovoid with a slightly drawn-in mouth, standing on a low turned foot ring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second is a shallow footed bowl, wider and lower, of the kind that sits on a tea tray to take the slops or the second sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth carry the same decoration and it is the reason to want them. The colour is sprayed rather than painted — a soft primrose yellow at the top graduating down through to a cool eau-de-nil green at the foot, with no line where one ends and the other begins. The interiors are left plain cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine gilt line runs around each rim, and a second band of gilt is laid around the foot of the sugar bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderneath, both are printed in green: ROYAL WINTON, GRIMWADES, MADE IN ENGLAND, around the firm's looped monogram. The sugar bowl carries something more — the shape name ROSEBUD, impressed into the clay itself and arcing around the foot ring above the printed mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo marks, two different kinds of evidence, and the impressed one is the better of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed backstamp is applied to the surface at decoration. An impressed name is pressed into wet clay at the moulding stage, before the piece is ever fired, and it names the shape rather than the pattern. ROSEBUD is the model, and Grimwades used it across more than one decoration — the name is documented on Royal Winton pieces in this same graded green colourway, carried alongside a factory pattern number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe firm behind it is one of the substantial names of the Potteries. Grimwades Ltd was founded at Stoke-on-Trent in 1885 by Leonard Lumsden Grimwade and his brother Sidney. By 1906 it was running four factories, and in 1913 the works received a royal visit from King George V and Queen Mary. Leonard Grimwade died in 1931 and James Plant took the firm on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name printed on these two bases dates them. Grimwades adopted the Royal Winton trade name at the end of the 1920s, following its move into chintzware in 1928, and a piece marked Royal Winton therefore cannot have been made before then. The firm continued producing this class of domestic ware through the middle of the century; chintz production finally stopped in the early 1960s on cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyal Winton is collected almost entirely for that chintz — dense all-over floral patterns printed from lithographic sheets. This is the quiet other half of what the factory made, and to a certain eye it is the better half: no pattern at all, just two colours sprayed into one another and a line of gold. It is a harder thing to bring off than a printed flower, because there is nothing to hide behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDated on the mark: after 1929.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTwo pieces of glazed earthenware — an open sugar bowl and a shallow footed bowl\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSugar bowl approximately 3½ in tall by 3½ in across; footed bowl approximately 5 in across by 2½ in tall\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDecoration\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAirbrushed ombré running from primrose yellow at the rim to eau-de-nil green at the foot, with no visible transition; plain cream interiors; fine gilt line to each rim and a gilt band to the foot of the sugar bowl\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBoth printed in green to the base: ROYAL WINTON · GRIMWADES · MADE IN ENGLAND with the firm's monogram. The sugar bowl additionally carries the shape name ROSEBUD impressed into the clay around the foot ring.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGrimwades Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent, trading as Royal Winton\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAfter 1929, on the mark. Grimwades adopted the Royal Winton trade name at the end of the 1920s and continued this class of ware through the middle of the century.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStated in full, and there is a fault on one of the two. The sugar bowl is sound with no chips, cracks or repairs; it stands level, the gilt at the rim and foot is complete and unrubbed, and the sprayed colour is even and unfaded. It carries fine crazing across the whole of the coloured body — a close overall network, clearly visible in raking light, normal in an earthenware glaze of this age. The footed bowl is chipped at the rim: a small notch that interrupts the gilt line, with a short line running from it into the wall of the bowl. Its colour and gilt are otherwise bright and even. Sold as decorative pieces — see below. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eColour that moves is the rarest thing in old china, and this is a whole surface of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost everything on a shelf of English pottery is either one flat colour or a printed pattern. These two are neither. The yellow runs into the green with no edge anywhere, which means the pieces change as the light moves across the room — morning light makes them yellow, evening light makes them green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are also, usefully, quiet. Primrose and eau-de-nil are soft, dusty and slightly chalky, and they sit against plain white china, unpainted wood, brass and linen without asking for anything. A cabinet of blue-and-white is lifted by one pale yellow object and ruined by a loud one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gold line is doing real work. A single fine gilt rim is what separates a decorative pot from a piece of factory ware, and on a graded ground it draws the eye along the edge and makes the shape read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are better together than apart. A tall one and a low one in matching colour is a small composition rather than two objects, and the pair sits well on a windowsill, a dresser shelf, a bathroom counter or the corner of a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they hold things. The sugar bowl takes paperclips, rings, matches, stamps or a small handful of cut flower heads; the shallow bowl takes keys, coins or a wound-up pair of reading glasses. That is what a good small pot does once it stops being tableware.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note on use, and it is the important one. Sold as decorative pieces, not as tableware. The footed bowl has a chipped rim and should not be eaten or drunk from, and the sugar bowl's crazed glaze is a network of open lines in the surface that will absorb anything wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever put either in a dishwasher or a microwave. Detergent and heat drive water into crazing and stain it permanently from underneath, and the gilt rims will burn in a microwave and strip in a dishwasher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo not soak them. Wipe with a barely damp cloth and dry at once. Crazed earthenware draws water in through the glaze and takes days to give it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse a glass liner or a jar if you want flowers in the sugar bowl, and keep both out of direct sun, which pales sprayed colour faster than fired-in pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48048900178025,"sku":"VE-0778","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/royal-winton-grimwades-rosebud-open-sugar-bowl-and-footed-bowl-airbrushed-yellow-to-green-ombre-with-gilt-rims-stoke-on-trent-after-1929","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}