Dating ware
07-May-2019 17:18
Another type of Tunbridge Ware geometric design was created by the stickware method.
However even if they were not decorated by the Tunbridge makers many of these boxes were supplied in the white by them, for ladies to decorate at home. The parquetry and long triangular vandyke patterns, which decorate the Tunbridge Ware boxes of this period, are of such distinctive quality that they cannot be mistaken for anything else.The mosaic technique was used to create geometric border patterns as well as more ambitious representations of flora, fauna, people and buildings.