Wall plaque decorated with a painted design in ruby lustre of a peacock and heart,
signed to the front J.G.M. Jeffrey, 1898 (restored)
Mark: Impressed SALOPIAN “diamond” mark
Diameter: 200mm / 8in
Date: 1898
John George Mowbray Jeffrey, born Manchester 1868. The 1881 census records that he was living with his family at Court Street, Madeley, Shropshire. A student at the Coalbrookdale School of Art, he was awarded a silver medal and the Owen Jones Prize in 1883, and a silver medal and a book prize in 1884. In the 1891 census, he was at Shooting Butt Lane, Madeley, and was working for a decorative tile maker. By 1901 he was married, and was living at Burslem, Staffordshire, where he worked as a tile designer. Ten years later, in 1911, he was an artist designer and manager in a decorative tile business. He died in 1954, at Hereford.
Three examples of his work are known to exist, all of which are plates/plaques with hand-painted designs. Only one of these three designs is painted onto a piece of Salopian Art Pottery.
Provenance: Private collection, UK