Vintage Plate Butterflies Series Buckeye Dogshead Great Purple Hairstreak
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vintage Painted Bird & Butterfly Plate
Royal Cauldon
Artist Signed Holmes Gray
For consideration is this antique plate from a rare series called Butterflies of the World by Royal Cauldon. Butterflies of the World
Dog's Head Colias Cacsonia
Buckeye
Junonia Lavinia
Great Purple Hairstreak - Theda Halesus
Originally Handpainted by
Holmes Cray for Royal Cauldon-Bristol
England's oldest Pottery
Established 1652
MADE IN ENGLAND
The artist John Holmes Gray was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland, in 1929 and grew up in Glasgow. He did his National Service in the Royal Navy where he was awarded a Royal Navy grant to attend drawing classes at Edinburgh College of Art , Scotland. On finishing his service he studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1949-1954 , at diploma and post-diploma level. He studied under Johnny Miller in the first two years and then studied ceramics from 1951 under Johnny Crawford (ceramics was then part of the Sculptures Department, the Head of which was Benno Schotz ). He was awarded the Haldane Travelling Scholarship in 1953-54 . After leaving Glasgow School of Art he worked for Johnson, Matthey & Co Ltd , potters, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and other successful Stoke potters such as Spode and Royal Worcester.
Measures: 9 1/2"
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