Antique Staffordshire Stone China (Ironstone) by John Maddock circa 1840 in pattern Campanie 10.25-inch Earthenware China with antique factory marks manufactured in Burslem Staffordshire by John Maddock Campanie pattern in pale blue and white transferware with superb detailing. Antique patina as expected made between 1839 and 1842 Scalloped border with antique ware to glaze. Beautiful powder blue and white design. This plate came from a private collection and is in a 19th Century hand crafted hanging rack It has universal fine glaze crazing and on stable barely visible rim crack approx 3cm long (stable) One of the nicest pieces of antique Maddock blue and white Staffordshire we have handled from this period in some time. Campanie is a rare pattern and incorporates some of the classic rim and blockwork details used by John Maddock across a range of design series around this period A rare and wonderful piece of Victorian Staffordshire ironstone blue and white china for a decerning collector looking for something special.
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Well this is another beautiful example. Blue and white China, English earthenware.
We've done the research on this, it was a real interesting one, went down a complete rabbit hole
with China mark on this to find out who made it. And it took me hours, it didn't come up on any of
the classic image searches on either the design that you're looking at here or the factory mark
stamp on the back. Google Lens and the AI were constantly telling me this was fairy
villas and it's most definitely not fairy villas but it's from the same era if you like.
This pattern is actually one called Campany and it was made by John Maddox and the production
dates for John Maddox on the particular China stamp we've got here is between 1838 and 1841.
So we've assigned an 1840s date on this. It's in its original 19th century wire hanging rack as
you can see with the clips coming around here. And we have got a few little condition notes just
to run you through so you're absolutely confident in what you're buying here because this is an
expensive and rare plate. Campany very rarely comes to the market. There's one or two examples
listed in museums and in private collections but you rarely see it on the market.
A little rim nicks here. Antique ones just one and two here. There's a moulding fault just here
and we have got a stable crack coming in from this rim here just where it nips in. You can
barely see it. Let me bring it closer to the camera. It's just on this depression here. Goes
in for about two centimetres but it's perfectly stable. Campany as you can see beautiful design.
This classic element here this I don't know how to describe it it's almost like a moulded
architectural detail is classic and the borders is what gave it away as being John Maddox. And
is the pictorial Georgian rounded crown mark. Campany you can't read that as Campany it's
with the eye of faith that you can make it out and say oh yes Campany but it's certainly not
stamped clearly enough for you to actually read the pattern. And in the middle there just to
confuse everything the M for John Maddox. Not a Minton mark not a Thomas Minton stamp at all when
you look at this. It is absolutely John Maddox. And let me take that away so you can see again
that very beautifully produced antique wire hanging rack. We're not going to attempt in any
shape or form to whether remove that. It hangs it beautifully for display. There is the back end of
that little stable crack just with a little bit of staining in it that you can see there.
Universal glaze grazing with some fine staining around the rims as you would expect in a plate
of this age. And it's made from earthenware this not ironstone. John Maddox didn't produce
ironstone at this stage it was all earthenware china and that is the way you display it. An
absolutely stunning example of English shape design mould design print quality and that fine
antique wire rack just finishes it off as a fine collector's piece. I don't think you'll find
another one anywhere online in the last 10 years and you will probably have to wait another 10 or
20 years to find a replacement or a further one. It's a one-off rare piece of English earthenware
blue and white china. Thanks for watching.
