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Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace Posted by Jake Boggs on September 28, 2025, 12:24 am Hello, This set of blue and white transferware is in the Huli He'e Palace in Kailua Kona Hawaii which was occupied by the Hawaiian Monarchy until the late 19th century. This set in on display and is listed as Willow Ware, but I'm skeptical of that statements accuracy. The docent said it was unmarked. I am doing research on the ceramics from the collection of this palace and help would be greatly appreciated. Mahalo

Re: Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace Posted by Web Administrator on September 28, 2025, 2:03 pm, in reply to "Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace" Hello Jake. Use of the term "Willow Ware" is definitively not correct. We'll see if we provide you with some accurate identification of this probably mid-19th century Staffordshire England transferware. It looks like you have photographed through glass and might not have ready access, but it would be really useful if you were to look at the reverse of each item in the set and see if there is a makers mark.

Re: Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace Posted by Jake on October 25, 2025, 6:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace" Thank you for looking into the wares, any results? I was able to return to the palace and get access to the wares to look for marks. and take a few better images of the fronts. The small plates in the collection had no detectable marks on the back. The larger platter had a roughly .5 inch rectangular stamp with illegible text inside. I enlarged the images and played with the exposure to try to help bring some detail out, but no serious luck. If I had to guess I would say it reads RF & EG, but with low confidence. One of the covered dishes has what looks like a "2" stamped in the interior of the foot ring and small rectangular shape possibly an "I" stamped in the bottom. The other Covered dish has an "S" stamped in the bottom. None of these vessels have any text or printed symbols, though they all share the same scenic imagery. I've been looking through Coysh and Henrywood's B&W dictionary volumes but no direct matches. Thank you for any help in identify these marks.

Re: Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace Posted by Jake on October 25, 2025, 6:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Help Identify this Transferware in a Hawaiian Palace"

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