| Maker(s): | Ridgway, Morley, Wear, & Co. | | Culture: | English (1835-1842)
| | Title: | plate
| | Date Made: | 1835-1842
| | Type: | Food Service
| | Materials: | ceramic: lead-glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), underglaze cobalt blue, transfer print
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England; Great Britain: Staffordshire; Hanley; Broad St. Works
| | Measurements: | overall: 1 3/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 26.67 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 90.106
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Richard Loring
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Staffordshire pealware plate decorated with a blue transfer print in the "JAPAN FLOWERS" pattern and marked on the base, "JAPAN / RMW & Co / FLOWERS" in an anchor and shield design with a ribbon for Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co. The plate was owned by Betsy Smith Richardson (b.1773), the grandmother of Rowena Russell Porter (1880-1960) of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and her sister, Lucia Russell. In 1799, Betsy Smith married William Merchant Richardson (1774-1838), both of Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and they had seven children. In 1837, their daughter, Louisa (b.1814) married Rev. Charles Pinckney Russell who was born in Greenfield and became the pastor of the Congregational Church in Candia, N.H.; and thier son, Charles Pinckney Russell (b.1840) married Lucia Whitman of Washington, DC., in 1870, and they moved to Greenfield where Rowena and Lucia were born. "Japan Flowers" is a generic title which embraces several different floral patterns used by Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co.; John & William Ridgway; and Ridgway & Morley. The typical design consists mainly of flowers with a prominent vase in the foreground, all within a border of flowers with scenic reserves, such as is depicted in this example. Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co. was a partnership between William Ridgway and his son-in-law Francis Morley, which took over the works of Hicks, Meigh & Johnson in 1836. This was one of several partnerships of William Ridgway, which was theoretically separate from the others; however, there are examples of the same item marked with different printed and impressed names.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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