Wedgwood Lavender on Cream Queen’s Ware 8″ Plates
$75.00
Set of 5 Wedgwood blue and white salads with sprigged grape leaf ivy border.
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Description
A gorgeous set of lavender on cream straight edge salad plates in the embossed Queen’s Ware line from Wedgwood. Various date marks:
7 G 63
10 G 64
1 E 68
4 G 63
Size: 8″ D.
History:
Queen’s ware (or queensware) dishes, branded such after Josiah Wedgwood sold a set of creamware to Queen Charlotte, is a type of pale earthenware pottery meant to imitate porcelain. By 1768 Wedgwood perfected a whiter more durable creamware and became renowned for its success.
Wedgwood’s creamware lent itself to a variety of decorative techniques in the 18th century, including sprigging which is a relief molded design applied to the surface. The grape leaf ivy garland around the lip of the plates is such a design, and referred to as embossed in the maker’s marks. This particular pattern did not originate until the 1930s and was discontinued in the 1980s.
