| Maker(s): | Wedgwood, Josiah | | Culture: | English (1759-2005)
| | Title: | plate
| | Date Made: | 1891
| | Type: | Food Service
| | Materials: | ceramic: lead glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), underglaze cobalt blue color, transfer print
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire; Etruria
| | Accession Number: | HD 69.0441.62
| | Credit Line: | Transfer from the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, bequest of C. Alice Baker
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English pearlware partial dinner service decorated with blue transfer prints of landscapes with flowered and beaded borders, printed in blue "LANDSCAPE / ETRURIA, ENGLAND / WEDGWOOD" and impressed "WEDGWOOD" and "APT / 2" on the bases. The word "England" was added in 1891, and the impressed three-letter marks such as "APT" were used to date earthenwares from 1860-1906; the first letter stands for the month (A = April), the second the potter, and the third the year (1891). The set includes 1 tureen with cover and ladle, 1 oval gravy tureen with cover, 2 rectangular dishes, 1 oval dish, 4 oval platters, 27 large plates, 3 small plates, 15 soup plates, 1 sugar bowl, and 6 saucers.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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