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The Peach pattern in full flow: sprays of cobalt blossom and feathery foliage bleeding softly into the white, a lobed rectangular base with cut-corner handles and a domed lid with a scrolled loop finial. A proper Victorian sideboard piece, and the serving form that survives least often with its lid. | SPECS: Approx 11.5 in handle to handle, approx 5 in tall with lid. Maker: Johnson Bros, Hanley, Staffordshire, c.1891-1913. Pattern: Peach, printed on the base. | HISTORY: Johnson Brothers of Hanley opened in 1883 and built their American trade on Royal Semi-Porcelain flow blue; the crown mark with England alone, no Made in, dates this run between the 1891 McKinley Tariff Act and the change of mark around 1913. Covered vegetables lost their lids to a century of Sunday dinners, which is why a complete one is the piece Peach collectors are missing. | CONDITION: Lid and finial intact. A patch of glaze and print wear across the front of the lid where the blossoms have been rubbed pale, disclo