WOOD & SONS - Orient

c1923-38

This classic BLUE & WHITE Chinese-inspired FREDERICK RHEAD pattern resembles his YUAN design, but is not nearly as easy to find.

The design incorporates a pair of storks in a Chinese landscape with a full moon, blossoms, and a temple with similarities to some of the buildings in his KANG-HI pattern. Unlike YUAN, the pattern generally features the same birds on all items, but we did recently discover some items with a different bird on (see below).

Although some ORIENT items can be found with a Wood & Sons mark, the great majority bear the retailers' mark instead - a Toby jug logo with the initials HH&G Ltd, standing for HALES, HANCOCK & GODWIN. This mark was also designed by Frederick Rhead, and is illustrated on p32 of Bernard Bumpus's book 'Collecting Rhead Pottery' (Francis Joseph, 1999).

Dinner plate 
10 ins

Impressed 1935

£22

 
    

 

Side plate 
7.5 ins

Impressed 1933

£8

 

Tea plate
6 ins

£7

 

 

Medium platter
14 x 10 ins

Impressed 1930

SOLD

 

 
    

PHOTO TO APPEAR HERE SOON 

Trio
cup: 3.75 ins,
2.25 ins high
saucer: 5.75 ins
plate: 6.75 ins

Impressed 1929

£25

 

Goose eggcup
octagonal
3 ins (top rim),
3.25 ins high

£20

3.5 ins (top rim),
4 ins high

£28

 

 

 

Eggcup
2 ins, 2 ins high

£14

 

 

Cheese dish
base: 8 x 6.5 ins
cover: 5.75 x 4.25 ins

SOLD

 

 
  

 

  

Teaplate
Variant design
and mark
5 ins

Please let us know if you have anything similar to this!

£12

 
Coloured Orient
As with most WOODS patterns, hand-coloured versions were also produced. We have only seen one example of this, a fruit set coloured in blue, green, orange and gold over a brown transfer.

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