- Edge, Malkin & Co.
- Dacca, c. 1871-1890
- Earthenware
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Not For Sale
Cheese dish, brown transfer with polychrome clobbering and gilding. Printed and impressed maker's marks for Edge, Malkin & Co. This pattern consists of various geometric cartouches scattered loosely with an all-over pattern of flowering sprays overlaid. There is a simple gold line border. Dacca was a city of British India and is now Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.
Edge, Malkin & Co. - The partners were Joseph Edge, William Millett Edge, John Wilcox Edge, and James Malkin. In 1892 John Wilcox Edge retired from the business. In 1893 James Malkin retired and William Spencer Millett Edge joined the business. In 1894 Sydney Malkin left the partnership and the business was continued by the Edge family alone - the name Edge, Malkin & Co was continued. By 1902 the business was bankrupt and went into voluntary liquidation. S. Webster Dean (who was the chairman of Edge, Malkin & Co.) continued the business until 1910.
- Subject Matter: Aesthetic (Cartouche)
- Collections: Aesthetic Transferware, Edge, Malkin & Co.