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Beautiful Walter Moorcroft Design
Magnolia
Ivory Pin Dish

Approximate Dimensions:
4.5" (11.4 cm) Diameter

circa: mid-1970s


This is a wonderful 1970s decorative small dish featuring the Magnolia designed by Walter Moorcroft of the famous Moorcroft Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent, England, founded by William Moorcroft in the early 1900s.
 
Moocroft Pottery, Photo by DesertGold August 06
Photo from our visit to Moocroft Pottery  in 2006
The center of the dish features the tubelined (slipstreamed) magnolia flower with its delicate pink, lavender, green, and brown coloring on white ivory background, designed by Walter Moorcroft  (p. 154 of Moorcroft, Revised Edition 1897-1993 by Paul Atterbury.)

The bottom of the dish is impress-marked "Moorcroft Made in England" .




Condition.  The dish is in very good/excellent condition with no chips, cracks, or restorations.  There is a some underglaze crazing on the underside, something not at all unusual for Moorcroft pieces.
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