Item Name / Description: Antique Alfred Meakin Ironstone "Tea Leaf" Square Scalloped Berry / Sauce Dish

Features: A small, square individual serving dish with heavily scalloped, ruffled outer rims and a molded ribbed exterior texture. Decorated with a central copper luster tea leaf sprig and a perimeter luster band. Reverse bears the printed Royal Ironstone China / Alfred Meakin / England lion and unicorn crest, alongside a hand-painted pink "59" mark and a gold luster flourish mark as pictured.

Dimensions: 5.75" Long x 5.75" Wide.

Manufacturer: Alfred Meakin (Tunstall, England).

Period: Circa 1891 – 1897.

Condition Notes: Good Antique Condition. Mechanically sound with no chips, cracks, or repairs. The piece exhibits all-over, tight antique glaze crazing and a few minor factory stilt/iron spots on the interior basin floor. The copper luster band along the rim shows honest shelf wear and thinning but retains a warm, dark coppery-bronze tone.