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RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green
RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green

RARE Antique Wedgwood Creamware Plate Conchology Shells Seaweed Guy Green

$199.99

Brand Wedgwood

This plate is an antique 18th-century Wedgwood shell edge creamware plate featuring the rare Conchology (shells and seaweed) pattern with a green feather/shell-molded edge, produced around 1770–1780 (attributed in part to Guy Green of Liverpool). It was printed in gray-brown and painted in green. Conchology is the study of shells, and Josiah Wedgwood was an avid shell collector.

For two similar examples, see The British Museum, registration no. 1909,1201.455; and Aileen Dawson, ‘Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum’, p. 21, fig. 10.

A very similar plate, but with floral decoration, is on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, accession number CIRC.1143-1967. Creamware, a type of lead-glazed earthenware, was originally developed in Staffordshire in the 1740’s and 1750’s but was perfected by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1760’s.

 

A rare antique Wedgwood Creamware pottery Plate attributed to Guy Green of Liverpool, each transfer-printed in black and enriched in green enamel with a variety of shells and seaweed – with green rim

Circa 1770-80

Measures 8”

 Minor flea bites on the rim as shown in close ups