Date: circa 1814
Period: Regency
Pattern number: 2/1070
This impressive Regency slop bowl by John and William Ridgway is boldy decorated with a basket of hand-painted flowers and stylised seashells.
Shape: The large circular bowl has a flared rim with an undulating edge. The curving sides are gently ribbed.
Decoration: Gilt seaweed adorns the underglaze blue ground on the outside. The bowl has finely painted summer blooms spilling out of a gilt basket, set inside a buttermilk-ground panel. On the opposite side is a gilt and buttermilk stylised nautilus shell, and on either side are large stylised conch shells of pale blue and buttermilk, edged in gilt. Inside the bowl, gilt trailing acanthus encircles the rim.
Norfolk Museums has a coffee cup in the same Ridgway pattern, and the creamer is Plate 776 on Page 130 of Michael Berthoud’s A Cabinet of British Creamers
Condition: Mint. No wear or damage.
Origin: Stoke on Trent, England
Diameter 17.5 cm. Height 7.7 cm
Weight: 542 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
See Ridgway partnerships at Cauldon Place in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
