Glazed Platters and Serveware

A black on white transfer printed platter, the Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire pattern, made by Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, Staffordshire, Englan...

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...

An oval Staffordshire platter decorated with hand-painted feather and star ornament in shades of apple and forest green and brown, with brown stripe alon...