Pale blue and white antique Joseph Clementson china Pekin Sketches oval dessert plates c1839-1864

• Very fine English Staffordshire grit Ironstone china pair of dessert plates with scroll molded handle detailing
  
• Condition note, both plates have antique chips on the base rim as shown
• Pekin Sketches from a series of Asiatic Scene  romanticised Chinese river scenes in pale blue and white china transfer design with floral scroll borders
  
• Joseph Clementson had apprenticed with J & W Ridgway before setting up in business with Jonah read in 1832
  
• 8.25-inch long classic English oval dessert plates 6.5-inch wide from a dessert or breakfast set
  
• Superb patina glaze ware to plate and gadrooned rims 
  
• Date range 1839-1864 Hanley Staffordshire
• In 1851 the company exhibited Asiatic Sketches at the Great Exhibition
• Printed cartouche backstamp with 'Pekin Sketches', pagoda and initials JC