Glazed Platters and Serveware

An early 20th century Wedgwood powder blue oval serving dish with gilded chinoiserie floral decoration. The Wedgwood factory began experimentation to create powder-blue, or bleu soufflé, wares in the beginning of the 20th century. It took for its model 18th century Chinese porcelains with a chuiqing (‘blown blue’) glaze and gilded designs. In order to achieve an air-brushed effect, artisans at the Jingdezhen kilns blew powdered cobalt onto unglazed biscuit through a bamboo shoot that had a piece of very thin silk gauze at the end. A second firing secured the powder onto the piece. Chinese powder-blue wares were popular in both the Middle East (which had its own tradition of lustre described below) and in Europe, there reserved for the homes of the upper class. At Wedgwood, a team of the company’s four leading figures was tasked with recreating the Chinese powder-blue glaze: John Goodwin...

From the English firm of Wedgwood, a Flounder form fish platter, dated 1875 A scarce oval platter molded as a Flounder, a flat fish, with the olive green head and tail serving as s...

From Wedgwood, Burslem, England, a green majolica glazed server with an overlapping Maple Leaf pattern, date marked 1868. A rectangular mold with truncated corners and incorporated handles, showing a pattern of overlapping maple leaves...

From Wedgwood, Burslem, England, a green majolica glazed server with a Foxglove and leaf pattern, circa 1868. A rectangular mold with truncated corners, showing a single stem of F...

A rare, early Eric Ravilious designed oval platter for Wedgwood from the Garden Series, depicting a woman under a tree with umbrellas and a striped tent...

Signed Wedgwood serving bowl in the "Fallow Deer" pattern. Signed Wedgwood and is date marked 1907. Pierced handles.

Two large Wedgwood white ironstone (glazed white earthenware) scale trays, English, circa 1880s, each black transfer printed with figures of Faith and J...

A rare Eric Ravilious designed Travel Series oval platter, designed circa 1938, and manufactured by Wedgwood, circa 1954. Ravilious was killed in an air...

A rare Eric Ravilious designed Travel Series oval platter, designed circa 1938, and manufactured by Wedgwood, circa 1950s. Ravilious was killed in an ai...

A rare Eric Ravilious designed oval platter for Wedgwood from the Garden Series, depicting a swimmer about to dive into a pool, above another swimmer wh...

A rare Eric Ravilious designed oval platter for Wedgwood from the Garden Series, depicting a woman under a tree with umbrellas and a striped tent nearby...

A rare pair of dessert dishes in the Water Lily pattern from the Darwin service, designed in 1806 and made only during a three year period, from 1808-1811 by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, in earthenware, transfer printed in iron red with large, crisp and graphic botanical composition with water plants (Nymphaea stellata, Nymphaea lotus, Nelumbium speciosum – now known as Nelumbo nucifera), derived from prints in the Botanist’s Repository and the Botanical Magazine 1803-1806, with borders of interlocking oval rings. Impressed Wedgwood mark on the bottom of each, together with later inventory numbers and retailer labels from B. Altman, New York. The Wedgwood design actually takes elements from three different illustrations. Most of it, including the middle, comes from the illustrations of 'Nelumbium speciosum', the Sacred Lotus of the Buddha, published in February 1806. But the background fill on the left comes from the illustration of the Starry water lily, 'nymphaea stellata', published three years earlier. And a bit of fill on the right comes from a third illustration the Lotus of Egypt, 'nymphaea lotus', published in 1804...