Description:
English creamware circular stand with a band of open arches extending out from the rim edge and decorated with a basketwork pattern on the interior surface and a small molded, lozenge-shaped woven pattern in the center well. The exterior base has an impressed "wedgwood" in lowercase letters. According to Robin Reily, this is an "Unusual 'all lower case' mark on 'useful' ware c. 1780 and more rarely on ornamental wares 1781-5." This stand is found in both Wedgwood's 1774 and 1790 Catalogues on Plate 8, which is the only plate that is identical in both Catalogues, described as a "Fruit-baskets stand" and available oval and round. See HD 2006.33.22 for a smaller, unmarked version of this design.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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