A large Della Robbia charger by Gwendoline Buckler

A large Della Robbia charger by Gwendoline Buckler, copied from a design by Aphra J Peirce, the well incised with the Madonna and child, the rim with angel roundels inside scrolling foliate wreath, in shades of green, yellow and brown on a terracotta ground incised marks, painted GEMB mark, minor professional restoration to rim, 48cm. diam.

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Gwendoline Buckler was the eldest daughter of John Findlay Buckler, an Anglican clergyman (educated at Marlborough School). He moved from Somerset to Wallasey in the 1870s and by 1891 was rector at Bidston close to the Della Robbia factory in Birkenhead.