Neale & Co. Creamware Set of Ten Plates, Puce Feather Edge, Classical Ruins
By Neale & Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
Neale & Co. Creamware Set of Ten Plates, Puce Feather Edge, Classical Ruins
Circa 1780–1785
Each plate is circular with a shaped rim molded with a feather edge, the molded barbs picked out in puce enamel in short radiating strokes and the edge itself gilded, with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding surviving. The well is transfer-printed in puce with a classical capriccio: a ruined arch on Corinthian columns, overgrown with foliage and carrying a broken entablature, stands before a crenellated wall pierced with arched openings, with a colonnade and a second arch beyond and a distant church spire below a hill. The foreground is strewn with fallen column drums, capitals and blocks of masonry, among which two small figures rest at the right.
The reverse of each plate is impressed Neale & Co. and carries an old collector's paper label inscribed in ink Neale & Co. 1778–1788, Chaffers page 704; two plates also retain the blue and silver foil retailer's label of Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches (22.2 cm)
Height: 1 inch (2.5 cm)
Marks:
Impressed Neale & Co. on the reverse of each plate, a mark used between 1778 and 1795.
Provenance:
Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston (retailer's label)
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge
Condition:
Good antique condition. The gilding to the rims is rubbed, as is usual on creamware of this age, but strong remnants remain.
References:
Diana Edwards, Neale Pottery and Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763–1820 (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987), p. 126, no. 100, for a large stand...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Ceramic Pottery