Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Wedgwood
Entities
Categories
Description
Bone china, oval, painted in green, red, maroon, and black enamels, and gilt. Pattern number 619
Bone china, painted in green, red, maroon, and black enamels, and gilt. The oval basin has curved sides, and two loop handles rising above the sides. The cover rests on a ledge inside the rim. It has a shallow domed top and an oval flower-shaped knob. The sides are each decorated with three slanting sprays of red flowers with maroon stems and narrow wavy leaves, and with green leaves growing straight downwards from the rim between them. The cover is decorated to match. There are gold bands below and above the pattern, and round the rim, the edges of the handles and the edges and petals of the knob. The handles also have a narrow serrated palm leaf down their back.
Place(s) associated
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Etruria
⪼ Staffordshire
⪼ England
Dating
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1815
CE
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1820
CE
Note
Wedgwood made bone china between 1812 and 1831 and then ceased production until 1878. Bone china of this first period is rare and was limited to tea and dessert ware. Pattern, number 619 was described as ‘Green Leaves shaded in black, red flowers, red brown leaves to them, lines gold’.
Components of the work
Bowl
Height 10.5 cm
Height 4½ in
Width 17.3 cm
Width 6 13/16 in
Inscription or legends present
- Text: WEDGWOOD
- Location: On base of bowl
- Method of creation: Printed in red enamel
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: 619
- Location: On base of bowl
- Method of creation: Painted in red enamel
- Type: Pattern number
- Text: WEDGWOOD/619
- Location: Inside cover
- Method of creation: Painted in red enamel
- Type: Factory mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.121 & A-2010
Primary reference Number: 177307
Entry form number: 1038
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 19 September 2012
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
