Wilkinson

Despite being the factory that spawned the Clarice Cliff phenomina, Wilkinson did produce some extremely high quality ceramics,the peak came when John Butler developed the awesome Oriflamme range.

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opal pattern

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opal fruit bowl

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I love Oriflamme... saw two once-lovely vases on Tuesday, very like your top one, but with damage to the neck unfortunately, so I left alone...

still very underrated, and I think the lustre glazes are good. Not quite Ruskin (his crystalline glazes my current oh, that's good...) but good... :cool1:

I think the fact that it can be said they are not quite Ruskin illustrates just how good this range was.

 

My first piece with fish.

and my second.

this one is just 3 inches tall

My first butterfly Oriflamme vase,very prized amongst Oriflamme collectors

another fish vase

inside the butterfly vase,it's not easy to photograph

opal

Oriflame is almost always in the form of a vase or a bowl so this fellow is very rare



the name of this design is flight

I have recently found there were 2 other patterns produced in the Oriflamme range, 'D'Oro which was obviously gold in colour and 'Dragon' which featured a Chinese dragon,again in gold.
I have yet to see either offered for sale but I doubt they would be in my price range due to their rarity.

the stamp used before the Wilkinson Oriflamme stamp

Ambestonware c 1907

another AmbestoneWare piece, produced by Royal Staffordshire pottery as a forerunner to the Oriflamme range

here you can see the blue underglaze showing as the red glaze has missed in one area,under the blue is a yellow glaze

3 inch miniature vase
incised mark of coppilli ?