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Bluefields Bay -- China

India Tree by Spode was a great favorite of the Jamaican old families. This pattern was used by the late Edward Ashenheim whose father Sir Neville Ashenheim was the first Jamaican ambassador to Washington during the Kennedy years.

This pattern called Tennyson has been used on a daily basis at San Michele since we first started renting the house out in 1985. It was made in England right after the first World War, and would have been of the type and style that the Jamaican gentry might have used on a daily basis at their country fishing lodge.

This soup bowl is a Victorian English pattern called Rayner, and is marked Ashworth Real Ironstone China c1870 by Ashworth Brothers. It actually is crockery and not fine bone china, but it has been beautifully hand-painted in a design that was inspired by Japanese imari. It would be typical of the sort of high-end that might have been used in a Jamaican great house at the turn of the century.

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