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hi, can anybody help with these hand painted tea set pieces, 6 cups/saucers with taurine or jar thingy, marked 3011 on each piece

thanks

 

jar thingy is probably a sugar bowl.

Mid to late 1800s.
I going to guess at Germany.

 

Could this be gaudy welsh??

 

Gaudy Welsh or Gaudy Dutch are done in the Imari palette. Cobalt blue, burnt orange/brick red, green and sometimes yellow. Gaudy Welsh has gold added, Gaudy Dutch has no gold. Made in England of ironstone ceramic.

The OP's is done in more of a pastel palette, and I don't think it is English. Also looks to be more porcelain than ironstone.

 

Just an observation, and may not help, on the sugar bowl, the handles seem to bird heads, maybe? Or seahorse?

 

I agree with cluttered. Interesting stuff: some of that painting is almost spongeware. My first thought was Austrian or German.

 

thanks for the info guys, germany was my 1st impressions as well

what kind of flowers ?, might help with maker

the sugar bowl is 7" by 6" , would that make it more likely a caddy

 

i do like the name Gaudy Welsh though, never heard of it before !!

 

Yes, what are the sugar bowl handles?

 

hi, yeah they are not depicting anything, just fancy shapes

 

The flowers look like pansies and tulips to me.

 

Yes with little Forget-Me-Nots? sprinkled in between.

 

Too many petals and wrong leaves for the viola/pansy family. Not tulips either. They're native Europeans, back when my brain wakes up.

 

Hibiscus, maybe (instead of pansy)?

 

Nope, totally wrong leaves again. It's a wee creeping thing. One of the wood violet family.

 

My first thought was Johnny Jump Ups - but they are part of the same family as the pansy.

Remember - China painters take a lot of license with floral decoration. Some are very accurate, but many just paint a flower to suggest what it might be, with out accuracy.