Dinner service, part, consisting of a meat dish, a soup tureen with lid and stand, and a sauce boat, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with 'Rosebud' pattern, several printed and enamelled vignettes showing children and young people at play and in c

Dinner service, part, consisting of a meat dish, a soup tureen with lid and stand, and a sauce boat, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with 'Rosebud' pattern, several printed and enamelled vignettes showing children and young people at play and in conversation; components variously marked with impressed and printed factory marks, printed pattern name, impressed or moulded registered design mark with encoded date of 11 June 1883 and printed registered design mark with encoded date of 25th September 1883, made by Grove and Stark, Palissy Works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1883+
the impressed or moulded registered design mark refers to the shape, whilst the printed one refers to the pattern; 'Rosebud' is taken from illustrations in Kate Greenaway's 'Little Folks Painting Book' of 1879