{"product_id":"vintage-bargeware-enamel-plate-in-red-with-hand-painted-roses","title":"Vintage Bargeware Enamel Plate in Red with Hand Painted Roses","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoses and daisies on pillar box red: this enamel plate is painted in the traditional style of the English canals, with four full blown roses in pink, blush and buttercup yellow clustered at the centre and a ring of white daisies with blue and yellow hearts dancing round the rim between glossy green leaves. Every petal is a single confident brushstroke, which is exactly how the canal painters were taught to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDepth: 2cm (0.8in)\u003cbr\u003eDiameter: 24cm (9.4in)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoses and castles painting appeared on narrowboats in the nineteenth century, when families living aboard decorated their cabins, water cans and dipper ladles with bright flowers to make a small space feel like home. The style became a symbol of canal life and is still kept going by boat painters today. This plate is painted on an enamelled metal ground with a crisp black rim, a classic canal ware form, and belongs to the later twentieth century revival of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt measures 24cm across and 2cm deep. The red ground is bright and glossy, and there are a few small chips to the painted roses at the centre, which you can see in the close up photographs. To our eyes they show a plate that has been enjoyed rather than spoil the overall effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it on a kitchen wall in a cluster with other painted plates, or prop it on a dresser shelf where its red will lift a run of blue and white china. It makes a cheerful catchall for keys on a hall table or a pretty dish for a big pearly shell, as we have it here, and come Christmas it looks wonderful piled with clementines. A lovely present for anyone who has ever spent a holiday pottering along the canals on a narrowboat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Blue Loft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55560093303111,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/3921\/9015\/files\/vintage-bargeware-enamel-plate-red-hand-painted-roses-the-blue-loft-1.jpg?v=1793013143","url":"https:\/\/www.theblueloft.co.uk\/products\/vintage-bargeware-enamel-plate-in-red-with-hand-painted-roses","provider":"The Blue Loft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}