An extensive Wedgwood creamware blue and white dinner service

CIRCA 1775, VARIOUSLY IMPRESSED WITH LOWER AND UPPER CASE MARKS AND PAINTED WITH NUMERALS IN BLUE

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An extensive Wedgwood creamware blue and white dinner service
Circa 1775, variously impressed with lower and upper case marks and painted with numerals in blue
The shaped body decorated with the "onion" motif and applied in slight relief with combed motifs enhanced in blue enamel, the covers surmounted with shells and large acorn finials, with faintly gilt edges comprising;
A two-handled oval pedestal tureen, with twisted rope handles, the domed cover en suite, with a nude maiden seated on an equestrian seacreature, with upper case mark, 34 cm. (13 3/8 in.) wide
A large cover en suite to the preceding, with upper case mark
An oval basketweave tureen and cover
A small oval basketweave tureen and cover
A pair of two handled oval tureens and covers
A circular bowl and cover, the cover wavy
A pair of square vegetable dishes and covers with domed covers, 24 cm. (9 3/8 in.) wide
An extra oval cover
A pierced spoon
A circular saltcellar, (chipped)
An oval bowl
A pair of very large circular bowls (one repaired), 43 cm. (17 in.) diam.
A circular tripod strainer
Three circular strainers, in sizes
A large circular charger
A pair of circular chargers
Three circular chargers
Twelve oval chargers, in sizes
Six square side dishes, in sizes
Eight circular side dishes, in sizes
Three navette-shaped side dishes
An oval sidedish
A circular sidedish
Ten dessert plates
Sixtyfour dishes
Seventeen deep dishes
A pierced cress basket with a central scene of an Oriental seated on a terrace (cracked)
A circular basket en suite
A dish to the cress basket
(damages) (150)

Lot Essay

Cf. M. Klamkin, Wedgwood (Newton Abbott 1971), p. 32
W. Mankowitz, Wedgwood (London 1967), ill. 38, for similar cress baskets

See illustration

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