1940 Hand Painted Yellow Pink Poppies Botanical English Transferware Plate Blue Border

Vintage Crown Ducal hand painted  Poppies / botanical plate depicting Camelias. The main pattern is transfer printed with highlights, accents, shading and color all hand painted by artists of the English pottery firm. It has a navy border with acanthus leaf borders with gilded trim.  I believe they are by Reuben Hague or were done under his direction while at Crown Ducal.    I have had several other plates from Crown Ducal which were signed by Hague himself.  These may have been one of the other talented artists who worked there at the time. Reuben Hague was born in 1880 and by the time he was just 13 years old he was apprenticed as a China painter at Royal Crown Derby.   He later worked as a freelance china painter in Stoke on Trent beginning in 1906 for some time and then returned to Royal Crown Derby.  His paintings and works he did during this time are some of the most costly Royal Crown Derby pieces. He painted a large number of tiles for export, and many were used in the palaces