WEDGWOOD Enameled Small Creamware Lobed Dish c1770-1780

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JOSIAH WEDGWOOD Enameled Creamware Lobed Quatrefoil Small Dish from about 1775 Wedgwood lobed dish with two Worcester porcelain tea cups from about the same period for comparison (Worcester cups not for sale WELCOME ITEM DETAILS: A small, four-lobed, diamond shaped creamware dish with delicately painted polychrome enamel decoration from the 1770s. The dish is a medium cream color and has WEDGWOOD impressed in large curved capital letters more often found on pre-1775 examples. And in fact, many Wedgwood experts have identified this same impressed mark as being pre 1770 (e.g., Godden 1964:657, mark # 4074; Towner 1959:92, mark # 46; Mankowitz 1953:149; Kybalova 1980:216). This small dish also has a squarish impressed 'C' mark and 'NO 1065:' enameled in brown. The meaning of the brown enameled 'NO 1065:' is not understood and it may either be a decorators code or a special order number. If any viewer has also run into this kind of coding on pre 1780 Wedgwood creamware and knows more about it, drop me a note - thanks. Maybe the lettering is referring to a date, such as NO(V) 10, (17)65 although I have not seen this particular date format anyw else. The enamel colors on this dish include green (much like the green on the Green Frog service), brown, yellow, and purple (much like the purple seen on late 1760s Wedgwood enamel wares). T is no underglaze decoration on this small dish. The ivy vine with small sprigs is delicately and expertly rendered and the very fine dotted inner border has between 18 and 21 dots per inch requiring more than 240 small dabs with a single brush hair! The ivy decoration includes shading over each leaf with brown to give them a three dimensional depth effect. In all, the ivy vine required another 420 brush strokes and dabs and so this little dish took some extra time to complete. That is probably why t is the extra decorators coding on the back side. Wedgewood was not the only creamware maker and similarly decorated wares were produced by many other firms in the greater Staffordshire, Leeds, Swansea and Yorkshire pottery regions. So if you are looking for a nice creamware enameled small lobed dish with an early Wedgwood impressed mark that will capture attention in any setting, then you certainly want to bid on this one while it is still available. This is especially true since it also comes with a full satisfaction guarantee or you may return it using my return policy as explained below. SIZE: This small dish measures 6 1/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches (lobe to lobe) and stands 1 inch tall. T is a nice diamond shaped foot ring on the back side that measures 3 7/8 inches by 2 7/8 inches (lobe to lobe) within which the various factory marks are located (see all photos). CONDITION: This small dish is in excellent condition with just one hairline that runs in from the center of one lobe to the foot ring. It is a curving hairline that is tight and just faintly visible (see pencil pointing to the hairline in various photos). Beyond that, the dish has NO chips, NO other hairlines, NO cracks, NO major scratches, NO stains, NO repairs and NO restorations. The enamel is perfect and more than 99.8% intact. A better small quatrefoil dish could only be found by traveling back in time and taking one right out of the muffle kiln yourself. PLEASE KINDLY LOOK AT MY OTHER LISTINGS (some soon to be posted, too) for more 18th & 19th Century ITEMS of INTEREST - - Thanks . . . . TERMS OF SALE: SHIPPING: All US buyers simply pay a flat shipping cost of $8.30 for insured USPS, double boxed, priority mail (insurance is INCLUDED right in this amount for all mainland US addresses only). All international buyers will also pay only actual shipping/insurance costs for all verifiable locations outside the continental US mainland and these costs will be determined after the Auction ends and upon receiving your full address details. All PayPal buyers simply need to confirm for me that your address is current and secure to ... read more

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