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Description
Offered for sale is an interesting wooden framed pot lid entitled "Strathfieldsaye, the seat of the Duke of Wellington". The picture shows the house surrounded by a lake, with two pairs of riders crossing the parkland.
It was Felix Edward Pratt (1813-94) who spotted the commercial possibilities of using new printing technology to decorate the lids of containers for popular products such as bear's grease, gentleman's relish, potted shrimps and cosmetics, with sophisticated designs.
After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares.
Long admired for their technical excellence, for their sheer variety and as a social and historical record of their era, pot lids have a venerable collecting history and rank among the most desirable everyday items from the Victorian period.
declaration
Verdi Art & Antiques has clarified that the Wooden Framed Prattware Pot Lid Entitled "Strathfieldsaye, the Seat of the Duke of Wellington" (LA381280) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c1860
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condition
condition
Excellent condition, there is light crazing (see photo's)