£240
A Coalport cabinet plate by Thomas Keeling, circa 1901, fully painted with a scene of 'Mother and Child' after Joshua Reynolds, with gilt gadrooned rim, signed 'T. Keeling, '01', green printed factory mark, titled to the reverse, 23cm diameter Thomas Keeling was born in 1864 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He is first shown working for Copeland 1882-84 painting figure subjects on tiles and slapped and later worked as a principal artist Coalport in the early 1900s, specialising in fruit, animal studies, figures and portrait heads. In 1909 he left Coalport to open a china shop in Kidderminster.
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