Dish Made by A. W. Buchan & Co. in the "Alpine" Pattern

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

52420

Title

Dish made by A. W. Buchan & Co. in the "Alpine" pattern

Description

One small oval serving dish, Alpine pattern. Made from buff stoneware. Oval shaped dish on oval base and with curved outward sloping sides. Handpainted 'Alpine' design in blue, brown and yellow comprising a dark blue, light blue and yellow flower and flower bud and dark blue, light blue and brown pointed leaf sprays. Blue band around inside of rim. Off-white background colour. Maker's mark stamped in brown on base: 'BUCHAN / PORTOBELLO / SCOTLAND / FINEST STONEWARE' within a thistle emblem and '249 / ALPINE / M1-287 / OVENPROOF'. SAMPLE' handpainted in blue inside rim. Decorator's mark handpainted 'K' in brown on base.

Type

Ceramic

Accession number

HH3948/299/79

Copyright

The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

The Buchan company had a range of set designs with evocative names such as "Brittany", "Iona", "Bluebell", and perhaps their most famous, the "Thistle" pattern. Each painter decorator had their own mark which they painted by hand on the base of each piece they painted.

There appear to be several different decorator's marks with the letter K. This object is decorated in Alpine pattern, which was the centenary design for 1967. There are a few Alpine pattern pieces marked with the smaller letter K in the collection and a more substantial number of pieces marked with the more elongated finer painted letter K mark. All are factory sample pieces.

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