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A fifty-one-piece partial dinner service of Wedgwood Queen's ware in cream with a hand-painted …
Dinner Service
A fifty-one-piece partial dinner service of Wedgwood Queen's ware in cream with a hand-painted …
A fifty-one-piece partial dinner service of Wedgwood Queen's ware in cream with a hand-painted and gilt glazed blue and gold feathered border.
Dinner Service, Josiah Wedgwood, c. 1785, creamware, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Dinner Service

Maker (British, 1730 - 1795)
Datec. 1785
Mediumcreamware
DimensionsApproximate measurements based on the average:
Dinner Plates: 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (1.9 × 25.1 cm)
Dinner Plates 1984.8.1-.5 & 1984.8.28-.33: 3/4 × 10 inches (1.9 × 25.4 cm)
Soup Bowls: 1 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (3.8 × 24.8 cm)
Covered Vegetable Dish 1984.8.41: 4 1/2 × 9 5/8 × 8 1/8 inches (11.4 × 24.4 × 20.6 cm)
Vegetable Dishes: 2 × 9 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (5.1 × 24.8 × 20.6 cm)
Gravy Tureen: 5 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (14.6 × 17.1 cm)
Four Platters: 1 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 16 inches (3.8 × 52.1 × 40.6 cm)
Platter 1984.8.49: 1 × 16 1/2 × 12 3/8 inches (2.5 × 41.9 × 31.4 cm)
Platter 1984.8.48: 2 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 14 inches (5.7 × 46.4 × 35.6 cm)
MarkingsMaker's mark on the bottom: "Wedgewood"
Credit LineGift of Anderson C. Bouchelle.
Object number1984.8.1-.51
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CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextThis is a fifty-one piece partial dinner service of Wedgwood Queen's Ware in cream with a hand-painted and gilt glazed blue and gold feathered border. The set contains thirty-three dinner plates, six platters, one sauce tureen, one covered vegetable dish, three vegetable dishes, and seven soup bowls. Upon delivery of 'A complete sett of tea things' for Queen Charlotte in the summer of 1765, Josiah Wedgwood was permitted to title his cream coloured earthenware 'Queen’s Ware'.
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