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Soft aqua and gilt, very Edwardian. A Johnson Brothers covered vegetable dish with a scalloped oval bowl, moulded leaf handles, a domed lid with a ring finial, and a delicate pale aqua transfer of rose sprays and rococo scrolls with gilt tracing over the top. | SPECS: Approx 11.5 in handle to handle, approx 6 in tall with lid. Maker: Johnson Brothers, Hanley, Staffordshire, c.1891-1913. Pattern: pale aqua floral scroll with gilt, unnamed on the mark. | HISTORY: Johnson Brothers built their name on Royal Semi-Porcelain, the light, white, hard-wearing body they sold by the boatload to America from the 1890s, and covered vegetable dishes like this were the workhorses of the Sunday table. The crown-and-ribbon mark with England and no Made in England dates it to the pre-First World War years. | CONDITION: Heavy all-over crazing, a chip to the edge of the lid rim, gilt worn on the scrolls and handles, brown staining to the lid rim and foot on the reverse. Lid fits. Tap test pending; sold as