Staines 10.5" Fine Bone China Plate

6-Colour Screen Printed Plate, Staines

Part of the Thames Towns series

A 10.5" Decorative Fine Bone China plate, illustrated by local artist Michael Oakes and produced in the Staffordshire Potteries by Edwardian China.

How are our plates produced?

Each plate design has been hand-drawn and put together using a colour separation process - this means that each of the six colours used in each plate (black, grey, red, blue, green and mustard) has its own design drawn separately onto plastic film, each with black ink, making it impossible to see the final result in full colour until the first plates are created. These films are used to create six silkscreen templates, which in turn are used to print the designs in the appropriate colours onto a sheet of wax. The image is transferred from this sheet in the firing process, resulting in the finished product.

Staines locations:

• St Mary’s Church
• Staines Bridge
• Market Square (including the Town Hall and Blue Anchor public house)
• The London Stone
• Corner Hall
• The Bells public house
• Old Literary and Scientific Institution
• Duncroft House

Features a hand-gilded 2.4 karat gold rim and a short history of the featured landmarks on the rear, alongside additional black & white sketches of St Peter’s Church, the Old Fire Station, the Angel Hotel and Old Staines West Station.