Period: Early Victorian
Maker: John Ridgway
An eye-catching botanical dessert plate of daffodils, from the factory of John Ridgway, later to be made ‘Potter to Her Majesty’ Queen Victoria.
Behind the bright yellow daffodils and their deep-green leaves are stalks of forget-me-nots with soft pastel flowers. On the green border, in between cut windows, are curling acanthus and vine tendrils, traced in delicate gilding.
We are also offering for sale two sister plates of clematis and convolvulus.
The pattern number, 8192, is painted in puce on the back. John Ridgway continued his father’s simple progressive system for numbering dessert and dinner patterns.
We do not know the identity of the painter. ‘Unfortunately, very little is known about the Ridgway artists and they were not permitted to sign their works,’ Geoffrey Godden noted in his book Ridgway Porcelains.
Condition Excellent-Very Good. Minor gilt rubbing to the trailing vine that encircles the central reserve and few scratches to gilt bands next to it. Minute rubbing to gilding on rim edge.
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Weight: 461 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
See Ridgway partnerships at Cauldon Place in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
