18th Century English Creamware Dish with Game Bird Decoration & Feathered Edge,

Josiah Wedgwood

Circa 1765,

(Ref: NY9571-crr)

The deep cream-colored oval creamware dish is decorated with printed exotic birds in carmine red created by Sadler & Green of Liverpool.  The border with a molded feathered edge.

Mark: Unmarked

Reference: See: "English Transfer Printed Pottery & Porcelain: A History of Over-Glaze Printing, Cyril Williams-Wood, Page 146-7 for ill. 72,73 & 74.  Illustration 373 shows the feathered edge.  The author calls this type of bird "Exotic".