Soup plate
Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co.
Category
Ceramics
Date
1835 - 1842
Materials
ironstone china with transfer printing and overglaze enamels
Measurements
229 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Hanley
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Greyfriars, Worcestershire
NT 443325
Summary
Soup plate, earthenware, lobed rim and deep circular well, Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co, Broad Street Works, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, 1835-42; decorated in the 'Hicks Rock and Bird' pattern, transfer printed in black with underglaze blue, enamelled with orange-red, green and blue enamels, at the centre a large chrysanthemum flower and branch of flowering prunus, to the right a scholar's rock, a bird in flight above, simple printed border to edge of well with double scalloped line and stars/flowers, around the well a print centred on a large flower with tendrils and blooms repeated three times, to the edge of the rim a repeated looping border pattern coloured variously in red and underglaze blue.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of base: REAL / [crown] / STONE CHINA (transfer printed in brown, underglaze) Underside of base: 142 / [?] 4 (hand painted, overglaze, red enamel)
Makers and roles
Ridgway, Morley, Wear & Co., manufacturer
References
Grant, 2015-2025: Angela Grant, The Ridgway Pattern Book, www.ridgwaypatternbook.org.uk Godden, 1999: Geoffrey Godden, Godden's Guide to Ironstone Stone and Granite Wares, Suffolk, 1999, p. 317