A large sunflower pottery ginger jar and cover designed by Sir Edmund Elton

A large sunflower pottery ginger jar and cover designed by Sir Edmund Elton, shouldered form, streaked blue and red ground, with applied band of red lustre decoration, the flat-topped cover with simple flower finial, painted Elton mark,

Literature

Malcolm Haslam Elton Ware Richard Dennis Publication page 33 plate 17 for a comparable example. Elton began to experiment with the use of lustre glazes circa 1902, the first examples using it as an additional background glaze