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Creamware plate - 1769
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Creamware plate
This Queen's ware plate is decorated with a feather edge and a moulded centre in the form of a Tudor rose. It is hand-painted in yellow and black enamels.
This Queen's ware plate is decorated with a feather edge and a moulded centre in the form of a Tudor rose. It is hand-painted in yellow and black enamels. In 1768 Josiah Wedgwood wrote to William Cox about the difficulties of maintaining standardised cream wares: "Endeavoutr to make it as pale as possible to continue it creamcolour & find my Customers in general, though not every individual of them, think the alteration I have made in that respect a great improvmt. but it is impossible that any one colour, even though it were to come down from Heaven, shod please every taste, & I cannot regularly make two creamcolours, a deep & light shade without having two works for that purpose"
- Type of object: Dinner ware/plate
- Mark: :: (Impressed)
- Year first produced: 1769
- Body: Queen's ware, cream-coloured earthenware
- Glaze: Cream
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Moulded, hand-enamelled
- Accession number: 9009
- Dimensions: 220 mm (diameter), 25 mm (depth)
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James Bakewell
Designer
James Bakewell - Designer
Active from 1750 to 1777, Bakewell was a painter for Wedgwood at Burslem, and then at the Chelsea Decorating Studio, London. He joined Wedgwood in summer 1768, and firstly specialised in enamelling floral specimens in black and yellow enamels. He is thought to have worked on some of the central scenes on ‘Frog service’.
