Period: Regency
Maker: John & William Ridgway
This impressive Regency sucrier by John & William Ridgway is boldy decorated with a basket of hand-painted flowers and stylised seashells
The gently curving sides of the large circular bowl have convex ribs between vertical flutes, and taper from a flange at the top. The flange is gilded on the white with acanthus. The gilded handles form leaves where they join the flange.
Gilt seaweed adorns the underglaze blue ground of the bowl and lid. 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 large stylised conch with a pale blue and buttermilk ground, and on either side is a gilt and buttermilk nautilus shell. The lid has a similar pattern as the bowl, with a stylised conch and twin nautilus shells.
The pattern number, 2/1070, is clearly painted on the base. The pattern was introduced around 1814.
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: Almost mint. Miniscule gilt rubbing on handle edges. A small porcelain tear (a few millimetres) on the inner rim, where the lid rests, is from manufacture and has been glazed over.
We are also offering for sale two tea and coffee trios, a teapot, slop bowl and creamer from the same set.
Across handles 17 cm. Height 10.4 cm
Net weight: 682 g
Origin: Cauldon Place, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
See Ridgway partnerships at Cauldon Place in Makers & Artists for background on the factory.
