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Fine Set of Three Wedgwood China Plates browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Decorative Art: Ceramics: English: Porcelain: Pre 1900: item # 766043 Please refer to our stock # C2110 when inquiring.
Janet's Antiques 3800 University Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608-238-3300 Guest Book $275.00 for the three plates |
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| Handsome set of three late 19th Century Octagonal Wedgwood Bone China Plates, each monogrammed in gold, painted with a country scene in colors, centering a Neoclassical border of gold on dark blue. Made by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons working in the English cities of Burslem and Eturia, c. 1878-1900; retailed by F. & C. Osler in London, England. Each plate is centered with a different hand painted rural scene, but the scenes are united by a rounded form and by dominant colors in shades of brown, light yellow-green and gray, and also share a sky mostly filled with light gray billow clouds. One plate has a water scene depicting a wooden row-boat grounded on the edge of a lake, mountains in the distance. A second plate has a Winter scene, depicting a large field with a few grasses pushing through the snow and two stark trees, bordered in the background by three houses nested among trees. The third plate has a scene with a dirt road dividing grassy fields, bending at a small house, continuing to a second house in the background. The plates same the same Neoclassical painted framing of the central scene, rendered with a narrow gold encrusted band of Greek Key underlying a dark blue flange overlaid with gold floral figures, enclosed by gold highlighting of a "reed and tie" embossed perimeter. The gold floral figures on the blue ground of the flange feature two festoons anchoring a round petal blossom pendant, nested between triune branching flowering acanthus figures. The plates are personalized with a monogram painted in gold above each scene, composed of two intertwined initials "R" and "M" in Gothic font, the former in gold outline and the latter rendered in raised gold suggesting a diadem and the possibility that these plates were commissioned for a member of the peerage. The markings on the bottom of each plate consists of a blue-green underglaze printed "Portland Vase" trademark for the English pottery of Josiah Wedgwood and Company, the impressed letter "W" accompanying the name "WEDGWOOD," the alphanumeric "X1158" hand painted in gold to indicate the pattern, and a mark overglaze printed in dark orange for the noted 19th Century English retailer "F. & C. Osler" located at "100 S. Oxford St" in "London." Each plate measures 9 1/2" diameter. The painting of the plates is in very good condition, but two of the plates each have a large amount of glaze crazing and one of these plates also is lightly discolored. | ||||||||||
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