Period: Regency
Maker: Job Ridgway & Sons
An attractive Job Ridgway & Sons dessert plate from around 1812. There are hand-paintings of summer flowers in the centre, and inside three panels set between gilt leaves and stylised gilt seashells on a cobalt-blue ground. The gilding and paintings closely resemble Minton’s contemporary 675 and 678 patterns, but who was copying whom is impossible now to know! Near the edge of the plate are four mouldings of gilded raspberries with blue-tinged leaves.
Confusingly, the Ridgway pattern number 2/370, painted on the base, would normally indicate tea ware, but this plate is definitely meant for dessert.
Condition: Excellent, almost perfect. Slight wear to gilding in a very few places.
Maximum width: 22 cm
Height: 3 cm
Weight: 391g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
For background on the factory, see Ridgway pottery at Cauldon Place in Makers & Artists
