A Set of Twelve Wedgwood Queensware "New England Industries" Plates UK, 1950s
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Description
Glazed, transfer-printed earthenware
Lithographic transfers after woodcut prints by artist Clare Leighton (1898-1989). The twelve scenes are: Tobacco Growing, Sugaring, Ice Cutting, Farming, Whaling, Lobstering, Codfishing, Grist Milling, Logging, Shipbuilding, Marble Quarrying and Cranberrying
Impressed "WEDGWOOD" marks, date codes for 1952 and 1953
(H: 7/8, Dia: 10 9/16 in. (each))
Qty: (12)
Provenance
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Literature
Batkin, Maureen, Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, Richard Dennis, London, 1989, pp. 186-7 (for similar examples)
Whaling plate with a few short surface scratches to well; Sugaring plate with some superficial glaze flakes and firing imperfections; Shipbuilding with a few scratches to well and shoulder; Cranberrying with fine crazing overall.
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