With some ingenious cutting and piecing, Masons adapts their "Scroll" pattern to their ped...
With some ingenious cutting and piecing, Masons adapts their "Scroll" pattern to their pedestal fruit stand. Masons Scroll is a finely scaled pattern featuring an unfurled scroll on a fine gray net field. The scroll features a scene of a seated person of esteem surrounded by attendants in a garden setting. This scene always includes a small table next to the seated figure and a tall stand in the background. The ends of the scroll remain rolled up as if to indicate this is one scene from a story. Floral sprays surround the scroll as well as reserves of "oriental treasures" above and below the scroll. Enamel transfer highlights include ochre, pink, green and slate blue.
In this instance, Masons seems to have cropped the transfer from a small platter to decorate the top of their fruit stand. The printed oval area leaves each end white, providing gentle contrast for the gilt-tipped molded detail at each end. Masons repeats the scene on the underside of the stand with additional cut prints decorating each end and even the tiny curled sections of the edge toward the middle. Additional molded detail around the stem and foot is left very simple with only a touch of gilt to finish the piece.