Antique T G Green Handcraft Cobalt Raised Gold Cabinet Plate – Hand-Painted Roses, Signed M. Langbrock, Church Gresley England 1940s

A large cabinet plate from T. G. Green & Co. Ltd of Church Gresley Potteries — the firm's Handcraft line, the company's hand-painted artist-signed series running alongside the more famous Cornishware kitchenware. The piece is ~11" across with a wide cobalt-blue rim worked in raised paste gold (gilt scrollwork and medallion lacework standing in relief above the cobalt ground, tactile to a fingertip — the same nineteenth-century technique Sèvres and Royal Worcester used), framing a clean white centre with a hand-painted cabbage-rose bouquet in deep burgundy, soft pink, and bright yellow, signed lower right by the artist M. Langbrock. A fluted scalloped gilt edge wraps the outside.

T. G. Green & Co., founded 1864 in Derbyshire's Church Gresley pottery district, is best known to the wider market for Cornishware — the blue-and-white striped kitchen line that defined English kitchen ceramics from the 1920s through the 1960s. Handcraft, the firm's cabinet-display sub-line, is a quietly different proposition: white porcelain blanks produced at the same factory but routed to independent over-painting artists who finished and signed the work. The base reads Handcraft / Designed & Produced by T. G. Green & Co Ltd / Church Gresley Potteries / Made in England in the firm's standard Handcraft cartouche.

The combination of English maker + German-surnamed artist (Langbrock) reflects a common early-twentieth-century pattern: English potteries hired German, Bavarian, and Bohemian-trained over-painters whose ceramic-painting training was the gold standard in Europe. Three gilt techniques sit on this single plate: the raised paste gold on the cobalt rim, the fluted gilt edge, and the fine gilt trim around the central well. That kind of three-layer gilt density on a maker primarily known for kitchenware places this piece firmly in the cabinet / display register rather than the everyday line.
The T. G. Green factory at Church Gresley closed in 2007 after 143 years of continuous production. Every Handcraft piece on the market today is finite supply, and the artist-signed Handcraft plates from the 1930s–50s window are the most collectable end of the line.

• Type: Antique Cabinet / Display Wall Plate (Hand-Painted, Artist-Signed)
• Maker: T. G. Green & Co. Ltd, Church Gresley Potteries, Derbyshire, England
• Line: Handcraft (hand-painted artist-signed sub-line)
• Artist: M. Langbrock (signed lower right of central bouquet)
• Era: Circa 1930s–1950s
• Style: Sèvres-revival cabinet plate — cobalt blue ground + raised paste gold + over-painted roses
• Size: ~11" / 28 cm diameter
• Material: White earthenware (T. G. Green standard body)
• Decoration: Three layered gold techniques — (1) raised paste gold scrollwork on cobalt rim, (2) fluted gilt scalloped edge, (3) fine gilt trim around central well; central hand-painted polychrome cabbage rose bouquet
• Markings: Black Handcraft / Designed & Produced by T. G. Green & Co Ltd / Church Gresley Potteries / Made in England stamp on underside; artist signature M. Langbrock on front central bouquet

Condition
Very good vintage condition for a 75–95-year-old hand-painted cabinet plate. Cobalt blue ground deep and even; raised paste gold intact and fully present (no flaking or loss); fluted gilt scalloped edge bright with light age-consistent wear visible only on close inspection; central rose bouquet vivid and well-saturated. No chips, cracks, hairlines, or repairs. Please review all photos as part of the condition record.

Ships carefully packed from Canada. Combined shipping available.
Questions welcome — happy to provide additional photos.

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