Bidspirit auction | A Pair of Staffordshire Ceramic

A Pair of Staffordshire Ceramic Framed Plaques by Harleigh China Co. - A pair of circular ceramic plaques featuring transfer-printed genre scenes, mounted on dark brown velvet within square gilded frames with rope-twist borders. The first plaque depicts a rustic scene of three boys and a dog, with two boys playing a game on a stone block, after The Dice Players by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The second plaque, titled Romance, shows an eighteenth-century couple in a parkland setting, the man in a magenta frock coat and the woman in a blue gown. This second plaque bears a printed signature at the lower right reading M. Chayron. Each frame is backed with a rectangular paper label with a purple border reading Genuine Staffordshire Ceramics, Hand-made in England by HARLEIGH CHINA CO. AMISON STREET LONGTON STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 1LD TEL (0782) 312171. The labels further identify the pieces as Series: MURILLO and Series: ROMANCE, noting PATENT AND REGISTERED DESIGN PENDING No. 953941 953942 953943 and COPYRIGHT 1971. Width: 15.2 cm Height: 15.2 cm.