Wedgwood Porcelain prewar 10.5" Dinner Plate ~ PATRICIAN ~ Queensware

Description: The "Made in England" was added to the Wedgwood mark in 1891, to meet the requirements of the U.S. customs regulation known as the “McKinley Customs Administrative Act". Being a rounded mark with the "Made in England" but lacking a Registered Trademark {R in a circle} would mean this piece is after 1900 but precedes 1940. The piece also has a USA Patent #74009 so it was very nearly 1940. By 1750 there were about 130 potteries in North Staffordshire, the majority of which would have been manufacturing products such as salt-glazed stoneware, black glazed wares, and red wares. Many would have been moving into the production of the newly developed cream-colored earthenware, which was similar in chemical composition to salt-glazed stoneware. Whereas creamware was being produced by the 1740s, Josiah Wedgwood's innovation came in transforming this earthenware body into a highly refined ceramic material which was described by Dr. Aiken as "a species of pottery of a firm and durable body and covered with a rich and brilliant glaze and bearing sudden vicissitudes of heat and cold without injury; it was manufactured with the ease of expedition; was sold cheap". The refinement of the cream-colored earthenware took a considerable amount of time and patience until finally Josiah was able to write in his 'Experiment Book' at last; 'A Good wt. [white] Glaze'.Throughout the 18th century, creamware became successfully more refined, technically perfect and more aesthetically excellent, until it reached its zenith with a fine form, thin body, clear and brilliant glaze which formed a perfect background for the ingenious enamellers as well as other more mechanical forms of decoration. Creamware is one of the most versatile and long-lived ceramic bodies, it was perfect for its purpose being used for everything from elaborate and ornamental vases to humble utilitarian wares. Its widespread use and popularity are exemplified in the writings of the Frenchman, Faujas de Saint Fond, in 'Voyage en Angleterre': "Its excellent workmanship, its solidarity, the advantage which it possesses of standing the action of the fire, its fine glaze, impervious to acid, the beauty, convenience and variety of its forms and its moderate price have created a commerce so active and so universal, that in travelling from Paris to St Petersburg, from Amsterdam to the furthest points of Sweden, from Dunkirk to the southern extremity of France, one is served at every inn from English earthenware. The same fine articles adorn the tables of Spain, Portugal, & Italy, and it provides the cargoes of ships to the East Indies, the West Indies and America."Despite Wedgwood's initial success, the trials for cream colored earthenware continued. He commented on the 6th of March 1765 in a letter to his elder brother John, 'I have begun a course of experiments for a white body & glaze which promises well hitherto'. Wedgwood's innovatory cream-colored earthenware was called Queen's Ware after the successful completion of his first commission for Queen Charlotte secured in the summer of 1765. With the delivery of 'A complete set of tea things' which included a dozen cups for coffee, six fruit baskets and stands, six melon preserve pots and six hand candlesticks, Josiah was permitted to title his cream-colored earthenware 'Queen’s Ware'. No evidence has been discovered to determine exactly when the service was delivered to London, but it was evidently sometime before the 9 June 1766, when a notice in Aris Birmingham Gazette, (a pre-eminent Midlands newspaper) announced: "Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, of Burslem, has had the honor of being appointed Potter to Her Majesty."The appearance of numerous advertisements in the London papers, especially the Public Advertiser of March 1769 specifically refer to 'Queen’s Ware', these as well as the Royal patronage brought Wedgwood to the attention of the nobility naturally increasing his orders for Queen’s Ware dramatically, causing him to comment in September 1767 to his closest friend, Thomas Bentley, about this phenomenon when he wrote: "The demand for this sd. Cream color, Alias Queens Ware, alias, Ivory still increases - It is really amazing how rapidly the use of it has spread almost over the whole Globe, & how universally it is liked.- How much of this general use, & estimation, is owing to the mode of its introduction - & how much to its real utility & beauty?" It is interesting, that Mrs Papendiek, Assistant Keeper to the Wardrobe of Queen Charlotte (an honorary position of considerable rank at the Court) wrote, some years later, that: "Our tea and coffee set were of common India China (known today as Chinese Export Porcelain), our dinner service of earthenware, to which, for our rank, there is nothing superior. Chelsea porcelain and fine India China being only for the wealthy. Pewter and Delft ware could be had, but they were inferior." Cream colored earthenware was so widely used that people no longer referred to 'Common pewter' but to 'Common Wedgwood' instead. ** WedgwoodMuseum Wedgwood is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery, "a firm that has done more to spread the knowledge and enhance the reputation of British ceramic art than any other manufacturer", exporting across Europe as far as Russia, and to the Americas. It was especially successful at producing fine earthenware and stoneware that were accepted as equivalent in quality to porcelain (which Wedgwood only made later) but were considerably cheaper. Wedgwood is especially associated with the "dry-bodied" (unglazed) stoneware Jasperware in contrasting colors, and in particular that in "Wedgwood blue" and white, always much the most popular colors, though there are several others. Jasperware has been made continuously by the firm since 1775, and also much imitated. In the 18th century, however, it was table china in the refined earthenware creamware that represented most of the sales and profits. In the later 19th century it returned to being a leader in design and technical innovation, as well as continuing to make many of the older styles. Despite increasing local competition in its export markets, the business continued to flourish in the 19th and early 20th centuries, remaining in the hands of the Wedgwood family, but after World War II it began to contract, along with the rest of the English pottery industry. After buying a number of other Staffordshire ceramics companies, in 1987 Wedgwood merged with Waterford Crystal to create Waterford Wedgwood plc, an Ireland-based luxury brands group. After a 2009 purchase by KPS Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, the group became known as WWRD Holdings Limited, an acronym for "Waterford Wedgwood Royal". To see all our listing, visit: Ika's Trains and Collectables Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment.Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4-business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday, it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 15 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2025-01-10T03:07:38.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD