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Flow blue in miniature with the gilt still on the rim. Maddock's Linda pattern, a swirl of blue florals and scrollwork bleeding softly into the white, on a scalloped butter pat over 120 years old. SPECS | Approx. 3 to 3.25 in. diameter (confirm). Flow blue on Royal Vitreous white earthenware, scalloped rim, gilt edge. Pattern: Linda. Backstamp: Crown over JOHN MADDOCK & SONS / ENGLAND / ROYAL VITREOUS with LINDA below, printed in blue. Dating: c.1896-1906; ENGLAND without Made In brackets it before c.1906-1910. HISTORY | John Maddock began potting in Burslem in 1842; the firm became J. Maddock & Sons in 1870 and ran until the mid-1960s. Royal Vitreous was their premium semi-porcelain body of the 1890s, and Linda is one of the flow blue patterns exported heavily to America at the turn of the century. Butter pats were the smallest piece in a Victorian dinner service, one per place setting, and far fewer survive than the plates. CONDITION | Gilt rim largely intact with light wear. Brown s