'Painted Birds' dessert plate in bone china. - c.1815
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'Painted Birds' dessert plate in bone china
© Wedgwood Museum
Dessert plate with bird subject of 'crane' named on reverse. Pattern 723, "Steels Birds pattn. Gold edge" Aaron Steele c.1815
Dessert plate with bird subject of 'crane' named on reverse. Pattern 723, "Steels Birds pattn. Gold edge" Aaron Steele c.1815
- Type of object: Dessert ware/plate
- Mark: WEDGWOOD
[Printed in red]
Crane
[Painted] - Year produced: c.1815
- Body: Bone china
- Decoration: hand-painted, edge-lined
- Accession number: 10211e
- Dimensions: 214 mm (diameter), 27 mm (height)
Glossary
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Bone china
Bone china
A porcelain made from clay and feldspathic rock with the addition of about 50 percent of calcined animal bone. Josiah Wedgwood II introduced bone china at the Wedgwood Etruria factory in 1812.
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First Period bone china
First Period bone china
'First Period' bone china was produced by Wedgwood around 1810 - 1820, although the product had originally been perfected by Spode. For Wedgwood it was not a success at first and was withdrawn from the product range quite quickly. Owing mainly to competitive pressure and Wedgwood's inability to match fashionable tastes, bone china had been introduced far too quickly in order to keep up with other factories who were surging ahead with its development.
