Wedgwood Queen’s Ware Celadon on Cream Plates

Description

A gorgeous color combo for season-less use. This green and white pattern goes with everything. One shell edge and one straight edge salad plate available. Straight is marked 12 M 55 and shell is marked 9 T 50. Vintage.

Size: both 8.25″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.