Group of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Majolica Dessert Plates
In various patterns and styles, comprising an 'Ocean, Shell and Seaweed' dessert plate, pattern no. M2934, date code HKI for 1879, molded as a branch of seaweed resting on a large blue and red edged scallop shell, the green border as white-capped ocean waves and sea plants, impressed uppercase mark and L, and iron-red pattern number, diameter 8 3/4 inches; an 'Ocean Shell and Seaweed' dessert plate, date code WKI for 1879, molded as a branch of seaweed resting on a large yellow edged scallop shell, the blue border as white-capped ocean waves and sea plants, impressed uppercase mark and cypher, black pattern no. 2949 and painted 8, diameter 8 3/4 inches; a Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Japonisme turquoise-ground Aesthetic Movement plate, recorded as pattern no. 3433, indistinct date code - -K for 1881, the center molded in the St. Louis pattern with a cluster of chrysanthemums, radiating six textured fan-shaped sections, with flowering prunus sprays and palm leaves, the gray border with half-flowerheads on a chevron band, within yellow line rims, impressed uppercase mark and W, manganese painted 7, diameter 9 inches; and a pierced 'Heron in the Marsh 'Boucher' dessert plate, designed by Théodore Deck, date code BUX for 1869, molded with a heron wading in a marshland among bulrushes and waterlilies, a dragonfly in flight above, the cavetto with a band of half-flowerheads interrupted with clusters of heart-shaped pond leaves, the reticulated border as brown rush basket staves, impressed uppercase mark and S, diameter 9 1/4 inches.

Exhibited (Ocean, Shell and Seaweed' dessert plate):
'Majolica Mania,' The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.

Reference (Ocean, Shell and Seaweed' dessert plate):
Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics, 1846-1959, p. 30, pl. XXXVI.

Reference (Ocean Shell and Seaweed Dessert Plate):
Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics, 1846-1959, p. 30, pl. XXXVI (darker palette).

Literature (Japonisme Turquoise-Ground Aesthetic Movement Plate):
KL001680 (first image).

Reference (Japonisme Turquoise-Ground Aesthetic Movement Plate):
Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, p. 198 for a listing of Wedgwood patterns. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, p. 34.

Note (Heron in the Marsh 'Boucher' Dessert Plate): Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, 2 1823 - 1891), established his own atelier in Paris in 1856, employed as Art Director at Sèvres in 1887.

Literature (Heron in the Marsh 'Boucher' Dessert Plate):
KL001665 and KL001666. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, fig. 14.4.

Reference (Heron in the Marsh 'Boucher' Dessert Plate):
Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, p. 49, pl. 96.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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