4521 - Posy

Tube-lining: Blue
Enamels: Goods blue, Baines pink, Baines purple, Cairo green, Harrisons orange & Turkish blue
Glaze: Grey heliotrope spot
Frequency Ranking: 26/50
Design Date: Early 1936
Production Period: 1936 - 1938
Pattern Name: Authors invention

This cheerful pattern would appear to be the winner from a cluster of designs that Charlotte created at this time to find her next “Stitch” or “Patch”, a tube-lined design that could be made to sell at a keen price. Like the other simple designs using mostly tube-lined dots and relatively little line work, this pattern is rarely signed, although examples do exist.

The other contenders for a simple pattern are Snowdrops, (4519), which is harder to find and patterns 4520, 4533 and 4536, none of which have yet been seen.
Charlotte Rhead Crown Ducal pattern 4521 Posy
Pattern 4521 Posy
Charlotte must have been fond this design because there is a cluster of variations recorded in the pattern book all with their own numbers, (4528, 4529, 4530 & 4531), as well as several unrecorded colour variations. There is even a version of 4521 in the same colours but without the tube-lining, (4619), which must have been the cheapest of all these productions. However, 4521 in blue was the only one that appears to have been commercially successful.

There are two examples of variations shown on George Conners website which has now been archived  https://web.archive.org/web/20101112194205/http://charlotterhead.jimdo.com:80/crown_ducal.php  Follow the link and scroll down to pattern 4521 to see the two Posy pattern vases in brown/orange/beige colours.

Despite there being several variations of the Posy design with their own pattern numbers, there are others with colours, glazes and line work which do not fit the pattern book descriptions. Two examples are illustrated below.