Featured Ovington Brothers Royal Worchester Piece. What's its purpose?

I have never seen a piece quite like this before. If I read the RdNo correctly it's 1921, I could be entirely wrong on that however. Anyone familiar with a piece like this?

 

@aRogueScholar - Welcome to the forum!!

According to this site, this Royal Worcester mark is 1887.

http://www.parkviewantiques.com/blo...er 13, 2015,Wall founded the original company.

My SWAG for use would be a celery dish.

 

That would work if they were filled with cream cheese!! BTW, your Avatar's a Cutie Pie!!!

 

My first thought was a celery tray as well. I've just never seen a piece curved in such a manner. Thank you so much for the clarification on the registration. I'm novice in that department.

Her name is Pixie. She's non-stop adorable. Thank you for the compliment.

 

I was thinking the design has an aesthetic movement vibe, the 1887 registration date works for that

Pixie is adorable!!!!!

 

I don't think it's celery. That was typically served in elegant cut glass "vases" here. Might be asparagus, which would fit with where it was made.

 

That was my other thought, but the only one I have ever seen was one I posted here a few months back by Theodore Haviland. I didn't know if they all had this type of set up & many of the American maker's celery dishes were just flat dishes with some curve to the sides.

 

Agree, asparagus tray.

 

Hopefully @aRogueScholar comes back to see the updates.

 

Love the info. There are certainly many examples of curved sided asparagus dishes to be found. Thank you so much for the education.

 

Worcester is pretty close to the Vale Of Evesham where the best sparrow grass on the planet is grown.

 

"Sparrow grass" is a new one to me.

 

Years ago my father took a client out to dinner, the client ordered "sparrow grass with holiday sauce"

 

It gets called that here a lot.

 

What are the chances someone could point me in the direction of figuring out the pattern?

 

Well, first off they look like plum blossoms, also it's Royal Worcester, no "h" in Worcester

Maybe contact the people at this site?
https://www.museumofroyalworcester.org/collections/

 

Helpful tips. Thanks for pointing out the error. Google Searches auto fill after Royal W and Friday was a long day... really should have waited till Saturday morning to post..

 

There may not have been an actual pattern name as many companies just assigned numbers to the different patterns.