Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers | #3 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Taylor Royal Doulton figure Darling HN1

Royal Doulton figure Darling HN1

Has on the back:

On a Side Panel:

His Majesty King Edward VIII

Stieff handed the reins of the company to his son Gideon Stieff in 1914

Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers | #3 | by Ethel L Thomas 1909 Taylor Royal Doulton figure Darling HN1Early Australian China Painted frilled edge plate decorated with Azalea Flowers This work has been executed on a fine quality MZ Austria blank signed on the underside of base in full Ethel L Thomas 1908 Provenance: this piece [and many others to come] were purchased from the family of Ethel Lawry Thomas [later post marriage known as Ethel Lawry Medcalf]. She was a known exhibitor at the 1907 Melbourne exhibition see here The first Australian