Fruit Dish
ca. 1770 (made)
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Fruit dish of cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), covered with lead glaze. Oval with quatrefoil rim and shell edge. Painted in purple enamel with convolvulus and jasmine sprays and a rose-bud.
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Materials and techniques | Lead-glazed earthenware, painted in purple enamel |
Brief description | Fruit dish of Queen's ware, lead-glazed earthenware enamelled in purple with sprays of flowers, made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, Etruria, Staffordshire, ca. 1770 |
Physical description | Fruit dish of cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), covered with lead glaze. Oval with quatrefoil rim and shell edge. Painted in purple enamel with convolvulus and jasmine sprays and a rose-bud. |
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Gallery label | Dish
Made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, Etruria, Staffordshire, about 1770
Marks: 'WEDGWOOD' , impressed and 'B', painted in purple
Lead-glazed earthenware, enamelled in purple with sprays of flowers
2322-1901 Jermyn Street Collection(23/05/2008) |
Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
Object history | Jermyn Street Collection Hilary Young states in the Genius of Wedgwood exhibition catalogue (see below): 'This dish is identical to those in the Husk Service ordered in 1770 by Catherine the Great, part of which survives at the Palace of Petrofdvorets (Perhof), St Petersburg.' |
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Associated object | C.70-1914 (Design) |
Bibliographic reference | Young, Hilary (ed.). The Genius of Wedgwood. London : Victoria & Albert Museum, 1995
D25
See pp. 51,71 and 76 for information about the Chelsea Decorating Studio in Cheyne Row, opened by Wedgwood and managed by his business partner Thomas Bentley in 1768. This piece and the previous catalogue entry, D24 (C70-1914) were decorated there, following the pattern of the Husk Service ordered by the Empress of Russia. |
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Accession number | 2322-1901 |
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Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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