Retro & Vintage 1970’s Wood & Sons Alpine Ironstone Milk Jug / Creamer – Sherwood Pattern Tableware Spout to handle: 18

Spout to handle: 18

The plate is stamped underneath Salins Les Bains Inalterable Made in France Print A La Main

This sugar bowl was manufactured by Simpsons under their Chanticleer trade name and decorated in their Belle Fiore patterning

each with a graduated and scalloped rim

Jean-Honore Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker who produced more than 550 paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism

Retro & Vintage 1970’s Wood & Sons Alpine Ironstone Milk Jug / Creamer – Sherwood Pattern Tableware Spout to handle: 18The firm was established in 1865 by Absalom Wood and his son Thomas Francis Wood. In 1921 Harry F Wood took over from his father Thomas and the firm became successful. In 1954 the firm became an Ltd. under the name Wood & Sons. During the 1970s the firm fought two unsuccessful takeover bids, one by Barrets in 1975 and the other by Staffordshire Pottery in 1979. The takeover bids weakened the firm financially and in 1981 the bank took control of the