Royal Doulton | Wild Rose (D6227) | Winchester Footed Bowl | Hand-Painted Earthenware | Burslem, England, c.1940s

Royal Doulton | Wild Rose (D6227) | Winchester Footed Bowl | Hand-Painted Earthenware | Burslem, England, c.1940s

The rose has been a constant in English decorative ceramics, but the Wild Rose series found something more natural than ornament — a sense of growth rather than arrangement, as though the flowers were still unfolding on the surface.

The Wild Rose series, also recorded as “Roses G”, is documented in specialist collecting references from the late 1930s or early 1940s, with production continuing after the Second World War; recorded examples include the D6227 designation. Its hand-painted roses in crimson, dusky pink and cream are set against a richly mottled ground of deep cobalt blue and warm amber-brown, with loosely handled green foliage that avoids symmetry in favour of movement. The series appears across multiple Doulton shapes; on the Winchester footed bowl its shallow depth and raised foot allow the decoration to read both horizontally and from above, where the full floral composition resolves most clearly. The base carries the Royal Doulton lion and crown backstamp alongside the hand-painted pattern number D6227.

This example is a Winchester form footed bowl with gently flared rim and circular foot ring. The decoration is carried across both interior and exterior surfaces, with large open roses rendered in layered crimson, burgundy and soft pink tones, each centred with finely painted yellow stamens. The ground shifts between deep cobalt and warm amber-brown, creating subtle tonal variation as light moves across the glaze. Loose green foliage threads through the composition, intentionally unstructured, reinforcing the naturalistic intent of the series. The rim and foot are finished in a copper-brown lustre that frames the palette and anchors the form visually. From above, the interior presents a full floral arrangement with clear variation in bloom stages and colour depth.

Even age-consistent crazing is present throughout the glaze, as is usual in mid-century Royal Doulton earthenware. There are no chips, cracks, or losses to the decoration.

Key Details

• Maker: Royal Doulton, Burslem, England
• Pattern: Wild Rose (Roses G)
• Series number: D6227
• Backstamp: Royal Doulton lion and crown mark
• Form: Winchester footed bowl
• Material: Hand-painted earthenware
• Country of Origin: England
• Period: c.1940s
• Diameter: 19.2 cm
• Height: 9.2 cm
• Weight: 648 g
• Condition: Very good; even age-consistent crazing; no chips, cracks or losses

Collector Appeal

A Winchester footed bowl decorated inside and out with hand-painted Wild Rose blooms on the mottled cobalt and amber ground, with a copper-brown lustre rim and foot.

Other ‘Wild Rose’ pieces from the shop: serpentine tray dish.

A bowl that carries its decoration across both interior and exterior surfaces asks to be understood as an object in round — and the Wild Rose series, at its best in forms like Winchester, rewards exactly that kind of looking.