Crown Staffordshire

This company started out manufacturing porcelain in 1889, from a factory in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. In 1948 it was renamed the CROWN STAFFORDSHIRE CHINA COMPANY, producing fine earthenware and bone china tableware.

Chinese Willow

Although the firm produced a wide range of patterns, we currently only stock the Chinese Willow pattern.

This colourful variation on the famous blue & white WILLOW pattern is sometimes known as Gaudy Willow. Please click here for information and photos of other Gaudy Willow patterns.

Chinese Willow retains many of the characteristics of the Willow pattern, in particular the two Lovebirds at the top of the design.

The version shown right, dating from the 1930s, is relatively scarce and does not include the pattern name in the backstamp.

Easier to find is the later version which was produced in brighter colours, although these are still handpainted, with a green border.

We believe that the later version was produced until relatively recently, ie: the 1960s. Some of the more recent items are marked with the pattern name, and occasionally the following inscription:

"From Ancient China comes this design
symbolic of love and the home."

 


CROWN STAFFS also produced similar designs with at least two different borders, and twelve tiny birds in a V shape. These have the Reg No 589090, and are quite hard to find.

The same V-shape flock of birds appears in an almost identical pattern produced by the STAR CHINA Co, marked on the back: "Paragon China, Reproduction of Old Chinese".

Being bone china, the Chinese Willow items below are translucent (unlike earthenware, which is opaque).

 

 

Dessert plates
8.5 ins

Bone china

SOLD

 

 
  

 

 

 

Trio
cup: 3.5 ins,
2.5 ins high,
scr: 5.625 ins,
plate: 6.5 ins

Bone china

SOLD

 

 

 

 

 

Tea plate
6.5 ins

SOLD

 

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Saucers
5 ins

£5 each
(3 available)

 

Although manufactured by COALPORT,
this is an exact match for the
Crown Staffs items shown above.

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Large Ginger Jar & lid (Coalport)

3.25 ins (top rim), 7 ins (top of lid),
6 ins wide

Marked:
BONE CHINA ®
COALPORT MADE IN ENGLAND
EST 1750,
Chinese Willow

£55

 

 

The firm of TILL & SONS produced a blue & white version of the above design with the pattern name Kang-He

If you like the Chinese Willow pattern, check out COPELAND/SPODE's Landscape pattern too.

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