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Green water leaf pattern - butter dish, lid and stand - 1790
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Green water leaf pattern - butter dish, lid and stand
© Wedgwood Museum
Wedgwood’s cream-coloured earthenware, or Queen’s ware body, perfected in the mid-1760s experienced immediate universal approval. Exquisitely simple border designs such as ‘Green Water Leaf’ effectively used the cream body as a canvas, providing instant visual appeal to prospective customers at all levels of society.
Wedgwood’s Queen’s ware laid the foundation for his fortune, and tableware made from this highly refined body revolutionised the ceramic industry. In the late eighteenth century border patterns were particularly popular, rather than the all-over patterns favoured in later years. ‘Green Water Leaf’ - one of the most simple but effective of the Wedgwood border designs features in the early pattern books at regular intervals, testifying to its popularity. The design epitomises the interest in nature that was prevalent in the eighteenth century, and was also revived during the twentieth century thus affirming its ongoing appeal.
- Type of object: Useful ware/butter dish
- Mark: WEDGWOOD [Impressed]
- Year first produced: 1790
- Body: Queen's ware and cream-coloured earthenware
- Glaze: Clear glaze
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Hand-painted
- Accession number: 9973
- Dimensions: 117mm (height), 220mm (width), 113mm (depth)
