A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE BOTANICAL COMPOSITE PART DESSERT-SERVICE painted in purple and lake monochromes in the manner of James Bakewell with specimen flowers including iris, cyclamen, narcissus, erytheum and convolvulous, the shell-moulded rims enriched in purple and lake, comprising two lozenge-shaped dishes (minor rim chips), two shaped slender oval dishes on three snail-shell feet (one with two rim repairs), fifteen plates (six cracked, one with star-crack to underside, all with minor rim chips), the plates painted in purple with large impressed uppercase and 4 marks, some pieces with painter's marks in purple, circa 1770
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A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE BOTANICAL COMPOSITE PART DESSERT-SERVICE painted in purple and lake monochromes in the manner of James Bakewell with specimen flowers including iris, cyclamen, narcissus, erytheum and convolvulous, the shell-moulded rims enriched in purple and lake, comprising two lozenge-shaped dishes (minor rim chips), two shaped slender oval dishes on three snail-shell feet (one with two rim repairs), fifteen plates (six cracked, one with star-crack to underside, all with minor rim chips), the plates painted in purple with large impressed uppercase and 4 marks, some pieces with painter's marks in purple, circa 1770
Lot Essay
For further similarly decorated wares also in the manner of James Bakewell see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, vol. I, col. pls. C48, C49 and C51 and p. 271, pl. 325