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A delicate crescent bone dish in soft grey floral transfer - wild roses and trailing foliage curving along a moon-shaped form made to sit beside the dinner plate. A charming Edwardian survivor for a plate wall. SPECS: Length: approx 6.5 in Form: crescent bone dish, scalloped rim | Pattern: Rossmore (grey floral transfer) | Maker: J. and G. Meakin, Hanley, England | Body: Semi-Porcelain | Backstamp: crown over ROSSMORE - J&G MEAKIN - HANLEY ENGLAND - SEMI-PORCELAIN Date: c.1890-1912 HISTORY: J. and G. Meakin built one of Hanley's largest potteries and shipped enormous quantities of semi-porcelain to the American market. The crown and Hanley England Semi-Porcelain mark dates this to roughly the 1890s-1910s. Crescent bone dishes were a proper-table essential of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, set beside each plate to hold fish and poultry bones, and the form fell out of fashion after WWI - which is exactly why collectors hunt them now. The soft grey Rossmo