You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

When the family business was importing pieces from all over the world Crown Lynn was one of the businesses who made 'copies' for them, using the imported examples as design models. sometimes slight differences, sometimes from straight moulds of the originals. But they never had the glazes, or the fine clays available to them that the European factories and others had. But they tried, bless them. The most well known rip off was of Simpson's Belle Fiore pattern. The Crown Lynn version was way too heavy handed and lacked the gestural looseness of the original. But, seeing New Zealanders could not get their hands on these overseas pieces at anything like a reasonable cost, you can see why they made them and to hell with the morals involved.