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Hand-Painted Porcelain Trinket Dish — Wild Rose & Forget-Me-Nots, Signed and Dated 1969

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1960s Enamel / Painted, Porcelain / Ceramic Very Good
HDRB-VR-0004
Somebody sat down in 1969 with a fine brush and a steady hand, and this little dish is what came of it. A pink wild rose with a soft yellow center, a scatter of blue forget-me-nots, green leaves shading into pale grey-blue around the rim — all painted by hand, with the gentle irregularity that only a real brush leaves behind. At one end, a cluster of raised leaves and a small scroll rise up out of the porcelain itself, colored a quiet green. Turn it over and you'll find it signed "Peta Siegal" and dated 1969, right there on the foot. Small enough for a dresser top, and just the size for the rings and earrings you take off at the end of the day.
  • Form: Shallow teardrop / egg-shaped trinket dish (a catch-all or ring dish), white glazed porcelain
  • Decoration: Hand-painted wild rose, forget-me-nots, and leaves; molded relief leaf-and-scroll detail at one end, hand-colored green
  • Signature: Hand-signed "Peta Siegal" and dated 1969 on the underside
  • Approx. size: About 6" long × 4.5" wide × 1.25" tall
Condition: Very Good. Clean and intact — no chips, cracks, or repairs. Glossy, bright glaze with light age-appropriate wear and faint natural toning to the recessed foot. Presents beautifully.
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Hand-Painted Porcelain Trinket Dish — Wild Rose & Forget-Me-Nots, Signed and Dated 1969

1969

Hand-Painted China

Some things are signed the way you'd sign a letter — quietly, at the end, once the work is done. Turn this little porcelain dish over and you'll find it: "Peta Siegal," and the year, 1969, in dark script on the foot. We don't know her beyond that name and that date, and we won't invent the rest. We don't need to. Painting china was one of the quiet arts of the last century — a person at a table by a window, a fine brush, one petal at a time. The wild rose across the rim, the blue forget-me-nots, the small human wobble in the shading all say the same thing: a real hand made this, and was proud enough to put a name to it.

It comes to us from the estate of a woman now in her nineties, lately of Durham and, before that, the Philadelphia area. She came through Ellis Island as a girl and spent a long life with a good eye, gathering small, well-made ceramics across Philadelphia and New Jersey. This dish was among them, kept and valued for years. The collection is the context; the signature is the anchor. A name, a year, a flower painted by hand — that's a person reaching across more than fifty years to set something down where you'll find it.

Materials Hand-painted glazed porcelain, with a molded relief leaf-and-scroll detail hand-colored in green.
Care Hand wash gently in warm water — no abrasives, no dishwasher. Dry with a soft cloth. Keep it out of harsh direct light and away from knocks, and the hand-painted colors will keep.
From the Research Archives
vintagerose.us Catalog No. HDRB-VR-0004 • July 2026

Specifications

Dimensions
9 × 7 × 4 in
Weight
2 lbs
SKU
HDRB-VR-0004
There was a time when painting china was one of the quiet arts — a thing a person did at a table by a window, one petal at a time, and signed when it was finished the way you'd sign a letter. This little porcelain dish is a piece of that tradition. A pink wild rose opens across the rim, yellow at its heart, with blue forget-me-nots gathered close and green leaves softening into a pale grey-blue shadow. Look closely and you can read the brush in it — the slight give in a petal's edge, the way the shading isn't quite even, the small human wobble that tells you no machine had anything to do with this. The form has a bit of sculpture to it, too. At one end, a cluster of leaves and a small scroll rise straight out of the porcelain, hand-colored the same living green as the painted foliage. Turn the dish over and the story fixes itself in place: signed "Peta Siegal," dated 1969, in dark script on the foot. We don't know her beyond that, and we won't pretend otherwise — but we don't need to. A name and a year are their own kind of provenance. Someone finished this piece, was proud enough to sign it, and set down the date. That's a hand reaching across more than fifty years. It comes to us from the estate of a woman now in her nineties, lately of Durham and, before that, the Philadelphia area — someone who came through Ellis Island as a girl and spent a long life with an eye for small, well-made ceramics, gathered here and there across Philadelphia and New Jersey. This dish kept good company. Small enough for a dresser or a vanity, it's just the right size for the rings, earrings, cufflinks, or pins you set down at the end of a day.
  • Form: Shallow teardrop / egg-shaped trinket dish (catch-all or ring dish), white glazed porcelain
  • Decoration: Hand-painted wild rose with yellow center, blue forget-me-nots, green and grey-blue leaves around the rim
  • Sculpted detail: Molded relief cluster of leaves and a small scroll at one end, hand-colored green
  • Signature: Hand-signed "Peta Siegal" and dated 1969 on the underside foot
  • Approx. size: About 6" long × 4.5" wide × 1.25" tall — a vanity or dresser-top piece
Condition: Very Good. Clean and intact — no chips, no cracks, no visible repairs. The glaze is glossy and bright, with light age-appropriate wear and faint natural toning to the recessed foot, just as its years would suggest. Presents beautifully.

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