Description:
English pearlware "Arca Antiquata" dessert dish with a red band around the shell-shaped rim, which is supported on a foot rim and has an impressed "WEDGWOOD" and another illigible mark on the base. According to Robin Reilly, these Wedgwood shell designs reflected Josiah Wedgwood's (1730-1795) special interest in shell, of which he had made a serious study since 1778. Although the Shape Design Book (1802 watermark) illustrated shell forms with their scientific names, the factory name for these forms was "Wreathed Shell Dessert" (the term 'wreathed' presumably referring to the ribbing in the design that occurs on most of the pieces). These componenet forms, often more naturalistically modelled than than earlier creamware pieces, were offered by the factory "with coloured washes or 'richly gilt'," and were produced thoughout the 19th century in the variously popluar bodies of pearlware, whiteware, caneware, lustreware, and majolica.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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