Sauce tureen and stand, cover missing, cream-coloured earthenware, rectangular with pierced lug handles, decorated with sepia printed and enamelled 'Japan' design; numerous printed, moulded and impressed marks on both components, including factory marks

Sauce tureen and stand, cover missing, cream-coloured earthenware, rectangular with pierced lug handles, decorated with sepia printed and enamelled 'Japan' design; numerous printed, moulded and impressed marks on both components, including factory marks, pattern name, a design number registered in 1884, the earlier printed registered design mark with encoded date of 20th February 1883, and a still-earlier US patent registered in 1882, made by Gildea and Walker, Dale Hall Works, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1883+ (1885)
Sauce tureen and stand, cover missing, cream-coloured earthenware, rectangular with pierced lug handles, decorated with sepia printed and enamelled 'Japan' design; numerous printed, moulded and impressed marks on both components, including factory marks