George III Golden Jubilee bulb pot - 1810
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George III Golden Jubilee bulb pot
© Wedgwood Museum
This small, but ornate, bulb pot was produced to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of George III in 1810. It is decorated with an orange ground, print and enamel ‘famille-rose’ style flowers, and the head of the monarch, together with the star and badge of the Order of the Garter.
George III and his wife Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburgh-Strelilitz were long standing patrons of the first Josiah and the business he founded. The Wedgwood factory had, over the years, issued a number of commemoratives featuring the royal couple for general sale. The 1789 ‘Health Restored’ medallions celebrating the king’s return to sanity following a bout of apparent madness, he suffered from porphyria, were particularly popular. Sadly the king lapsed into a further deranged state from which he never recovered - this did not stop the celebrations for his Golden Jubilee however, and the Etruria factory produced services in white ware decorated with a printed orange ground, and outline prints of the head of the monarch, the star and badge of the Order of the Garter, and ‘famille-rose’ print and enamel style flowers. An additional item produced to mark the occasion was this small but ornate bulb pot
- Type of object: Ornamental ware/bulb pot
- Mark: 2 on both
- Year first produced: 1810
- Body: Bone china
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Transfer-printed, hand-enamelled
- Accession number: 4944
- Dimensions: 34 mm (height), 200 mm (diameter)
