Royal Winton, Grimwades, Staffs.

Hello everyone.

I have a Royal Winton Grimwades vase and I hoping that someone here can please help me to learn about it.  It measures about 5.5 inches high (14 cm) and a bit over 6 inches wide (16 cm).  

The markings on the bottom include a Royal Winton Grimwades stamp in blue that I think dates it to sometime around 1938, 1939 or 1940 because it says just England (without the 'made in') which I think started in 1938 and it does not have the A incorporated at the bottom which I think starting in 1941.  There are additional markings on the bottom that include a hand written in gold paint number 2232 with a number 4 with a period underneath, and an odd marking in blue paint that reminds me of a colon followed by a comma :, or if you look at it sideways a smiley face?  Also on the bottom in large capital lettering and incised into the porcelain under the glaze is CLAUDINA which I think may be the name of the pattern or the line of this type of ware.

There is an overall metallic lustre ware coating and the glaze is microcrazed all over which is consistent with this being from the late 1930s.  The floral designs are definitely all hand painted (you can see the brushstrokes and variations in the paint colors where it was painted thicker or thinner).  The palette of colors include metallic gold highlights and outlines, light green, forest green, olive green, dark blue, sky blue, rose red, orangish yellow, and lilac.  The effect is very striking.

I am used to seeing the Chintz ware lines of Royal Winton Grimwades, but this is quite different and seems to have been a higher quality line to compete with some of the other big makers quality lines of hand painted art deco styles.

I have tried searching the internet to learn more about this but have come up empty other than the dating of the backstamp.  I would welcome any information or just just your thoughts about this.  

Thank you ever so much.

Here are some photos as pictures are worth more than verbal descriptions:

Thanks!  That was my initial thought, but then I took a closer look at the marking and noted that it reads "England" instead of "Made in England".  On the Royal Winton company website it indicates that the "Made In" was dropped in a marking that they used in 1938.  Also, it does not incorporate the 1941 change that includes the capital letter "A" across the flourish at the bottom to indicate the quality of their wares.  This is what is indicated on a more comprehensive listing on Deb's Cornucopia Winton Markings webpage (sorry for not putting a direct link here, but I am a new member here and the rules say I cannot use this function yet).

In looking at the markings on the bottom, what I am thinking is a number 4 followed by a period could perhaps instead be an X followed by a period?

Hi, I have this jug which has the RWG mark for 1940s (according to the RW website) and it has a Suffolk mark also. I can't find anything about this online. has anyone come across this style before?

Hi....does anyone recognise this pattern please ? It's a Royal Winton Grimeades design, post 1951 given to us as a wedding gift in 1984. It looked aged then.  The giver was the widow of a great uncle, who had worked in the pottery industry for many decades,  designing pieces.  I have looked many times over the years, but have been unable to find anything similar.  I had wondered if it was something he worked on that never went into production ?
Thank you in advance for any help.

GRIMWADES........sorry....predictive text !!, and I can't seem to edit the post

I thought this suggested 1951 onwards ?...one of the two stamps at the bottom...not the one circled

Good day to everyone.

Royal Winton lusterware circa 1934-1950. Cup and saucer.



Here is a citation from a short article dated March, 2000 about Royal Winton Grimwade history of production, if anybody interested: "In 1886, the Grimwade brothers - Leonard, Edward and Sydney Grimwade - founded Winton Pottery in Stoke-On-Trent, which is located in the Staffordshire district in England. It was not until 1930 when King George V and his wife, Queen Mary, started patronizing their products that they added the "Royal" to the name "Winton" and began using this phrase as a trade name.
Grimwades made chintz in more than 50 patterns between 1928 and 1963, when the firm was bought by the Howard Pottery Company of Shelton, Staffordshire.

Kitsapsun.com wrote:In 1886, the Grimwade brothers - Leonard, Edward and Sydney Grimwade - founded Winton Pottery in Stoke-On-Trent, which is located in the Staffordshire district in England. It was not until 1930 when King George V and his wife, Queen Mary, started patronizing their products that they added the "Royal" to the name "Winton" and began using this phrase as a trade name.

Grimwades made chintz in more than 50 patterns between 1928 and 1963, when the firm was bought by the Howard Pottery Company of Shelton, Staffordshire. In those 35 or so years of production, Grimwades produced a veritable flower garden of designs, and today's collectors are very interested in all of them.