Soup plate
Job Ridgway & Sons
Category
Ceramics
Date
1808 - 1814
Materials
earthenware decorated with transfer printing, overglaze enamels and gilt
Measurements
229 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Hanley
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Greyfriars, Worcestershire
NT 443318.1
Summary
Soup plate, earthenware, slightly lobed rim with deep well, foot rim, Job Ridgway & Sons, Cauldon Place, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ca 1808-14; transfer printed in underglaze blue with orange-red and yellow overglaze enamels and gilding, at the centre of the well with a stylised basket of flowers, a repeating looping border pattern around the well, with four groups of stylised antiques and flowers around the flange.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of base: CANTON / OPAQUE / CHINA / [fancy bird cartouche] (underglaze blue) Underside of base: 1016 / 0 (hand painted, overglaze, red enamel)
Makers and roles
Job Ridgway & Sons, manufacturer
References
Church, 1997: K. Church, 'J. & W. Ridgway: Anonymous Marks', Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter 107, September 1997, pp. 14-19, The pattern is referred to in this article as 'Bowl of Flowers.' Grant, 2015-2025: Angela Grant, The Ridgway Pattern Book, www.ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk