The Floradora pattern was designed and released by Booths Porcelain in 1912 and discontinued during the 1930’s. The pattern is a stylized one popular with collectors as it displays soft blue, yellow and pink flowers with green leaves in abundance on a geometric trellis motif.
Booths was established in 1891 at Tunstall and in 1964 became part of the Doulton Group. The popularity of the Floradora pattern has led to Royal Doulton re-releasing in during the 1980’s.
The item is a set of three Booths porcelain plates consisting of one salad plate and two dinner plates. The salad plate has gold trim on a prominent scalloped rim. The dinner plates are adorned with gold trim on very slightly scalloped rims.
The items are stamped underneath Booths Made in England Floradora.
The salad plate has a flake chip on the rim. The two plates each have a single chip (one underneath the rim not visible from the top and the other on top of the rim. Aside from the chips as described and feint age related crazing to the salad plate, no other damages are visible.
Salad plate height: 2.2 cm, Diameter of base: 12 cm, Diameter of rim: 21 cm
Dinner plate height: 2.4 cm, Diameter of base: 12.8 cm, Diameter of rim: 23.4 cm
