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Early octagonal dessert shape
There are a number of different varieties of this shape, and, originally, I had intended to use a different page for each variety, but there proved to be too many minor variations so they are now all on one page.
Three different handles were used with this shape: Grape, Rose, and Fan.
The Grape handle appears mostly on bone china, but occasionally on earthenware. The Rose handle appears only on earthenware. The Fan handle is the least used and occurs both on bone china and earthenware.
Geoffrey Godden published a number of photos of this shape in Ridgway Porcelains (1985) as follows:
"British Scenery" series, Riverside Cottages, leaf dish, p.19, Plate 20.
Pattern 562, sauce tureen, p.70, Plate 69.
Pattern 585?, sauce tureen and fruit basket, p.75, Plate 74.
Patterns 600 & 601, pattern book page, p.72, Plate 71.
Pattern 642, sauce tureen, p.75, Plate 75.
Patterns 671 to 674, pattern book page, p.72, Plate 71.
Pattern 675, dessert plate, p.71, Plate 70.
Pattern 710, ice pail and fruit basket, p.74, Plates 72-73.
Pattern 722, centrepiece, p.76, Plate 76.
Patterns 731 & 732, pattern book page, p.73, Plate 71.
Pattern 744, pattern book entry, p.73, Plate 71.
Pattern 747 (incorrectly labelled as 767), part dessert service, p.19, Colour Plate 2.
Pattern 757, oval dish, p.29, Colour Plate 3.
Pattern 767, fruit basket and stand, p.27, Plate 19.
Pattern 2/572, pattern book entry, p.73, Plate 71.
Pattern 2/582, pattern book entry, p.73, Plate 71.
Pattern 2/598, pattern book entry, p.73, Plate 71.
Job Ridgway & Sons
Buff stoneware with white sprigs
Pattern 767 "Japan Opaque China"
Pattern 844 "Dresden Opaque China"
Buff stoneware with white sprigs
The sauce tureen is 159mm tall and 197mm long. Buff stoneware with white sprigs.
The oval dessert dish is 254mm long and 194mm wide. Buff stoneware with white sprigs.
The dessert plate is 197mm in diameter. Buff stoneware with white sprigs.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
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Osterley Park
For the same print on an earlier dessert shape see: Early dessert pearlware page.
The fruit basket is really badly damaged, but worth recording as an example of the pattern.
The fruit basket. Earthenware.
Note the printed "7". Printed numerals like this often appear as tally marks on early Cauldon Place blue & white.
Photos © Don Mikel 2023
The dessert plate is 209mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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"British Scenery" series
For detailed information on the series see Dick Henrywood's The Transferware Recorder, Volume 3, Pages 61-76.
See also K. Church, 'J. & W. Ridgway - Anonymous Marks', Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter 107 (Sep. 1997), 14-19.
For other examples of the same print see the "British Scenery" print page.
Riverside Cottages. The dessert plate is 207mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Riverside Cottages. The dessert plate is 208mm in diameter. Earthenware.
An alternative version without the blue edge line.
The base of this plate is heavily potted, and so thick that the seller thought it was a tureen stand.
The tally mark, a "2", is in a very odd place, right on the extreme edge of the plate.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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"Dresden Opaque China"
For other examples of the same print see the "Dresden Opaque China" print page.
See also K. Church, 'J. & W. Ridgway - Anonymous Marks', Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter 107 (Sep. 1997), 14-19.
The square dessert dish is 234mm long and 187mm wide. Earthenware.
The figure "8" is probably a tally mark.
The shell dessert dish is 221mm long and 202mm wide. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
The dessert plate. Earthenware.
Photos © Dan Green 2020
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Ottoman Empire series
For table wares in the same print series see here.
The views are taken from Ainslie & Mayer, Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean Islands (London, 1810).
"Piccolo Bent". The oval dessert dish is 263mm long and 193mm wide. Earthenware.
Note the tiny figure '4' in the bottom right. This is not part of the mark but a separate tally mark that is quite common on early Cauldon Place printed wares. Usually it is not placed on top of the mark.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Unknown Pattern 7
The square dessert dish is 240mm long and 192mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Paul Mooney 2023
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Unknown Pattern 8
The oval dessert dish is 270mm long and 200mm wide. Earthenware.
Photos © Calin Crumov 2023
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Pattern 518
The sauce tureen is 152mm tall, 200mm long, and 140mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Willa Latham ~ Gentle Rattle of China 2020
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Pattern 562
The dessert plates are 205mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Paul Mooney 2022
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Pattern 566
The dessert plate is 204mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Paul Mooney 2023
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Pattern 577
The dessert plate. Bone china. Ex Paul Fox collection.
Photos © John Harbold 2018
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Pattern 579
The dessert plate. Bone China. Ex Paul Fox collection.
Photos © John Harbold 2018
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Pattern 580
The oval dessert dish is 260mm long and 195mm wide. Earthenware.
It is very unusual to find an impressed mark on numbered earthenwares.
Photos © Jonathan Charles Purt 2020
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Pattern 585
The dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © Paul Mooney 2020
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Pattern 594
This pattern is a most interesting discovery. The arabesque moulding and colour link it with the sprigged jugs and mugs with a pale blue ground and was probably manufactured about the same time.
The dessert plate is 199mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 600
This pattern has been published by Dr Godden as a photograph of a page from the earliest pattern book that went missing between his two visits to Coalport China, who then owned the book. See: G. A. Godden, Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p.72, Plate 71.
The dessert plate. Earthenware.
Photos © Calin Crumov 2020
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Pattern 609
The dessert plate is 204mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 610
The oval dessert dish. Bone china.
Photos © Annabel Lewis 2024
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Pattern 617
The square dessert dish is 230mm long and 180mm wide. Earthenware.
Photos © Calin Crumov 2023
The leaf dessert dish is 229mm long. Earthenware.
The dish has no pattern number but it does have a rare impressed "Ridgway" mark.
The dessert plate is 209mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Geoffrey Jackson Antiques 2020
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Pattern 626
This pattern has a moulded circlet of flowers on the border.
The oval dessert dish is 261mm long and 196mm wide. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 627
The leaf dessert dish is 222mm long. Earthenware.
The dessert plate is 203mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Geoffrey Jackson Antiques 2020
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Pattern 631
The square dessert dish is 241mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © David Blakeman 2021
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 632
This pattern has a moulded circlet of flowers on the border.
The leaf dessert dish is 225mm long and 51mm tall. Earthenware.
Photos © Bonnie Jean Seiwell ~ Lady in Decadence 2020
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Pattern 637
See also Pattern 806 below.
This pattern has floral moulding on the border.
Fruit basket and stand. Bone china.
The fruit basket is 237mm long, 122mm wide and 107mm high.
The fruit basket stand is 224mm long and 176mm wide.
The shell dish is 223mm long and 194mm wide. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 202mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 642
The dessert plate is 200mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Buckinghamshire Antiques 2023
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Pattern 709
The dessert plate is 216mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Kevin J Roberts Antiques LLC 2022
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Pattern 722
The sauce tureen & cover is 203mm long and 154mm tall. Earthenware.
Photos © Rebecca Coy 2021
The dessert plate is 216mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
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Pattern 747
For table wares with the same decoration see here.
A part dessert service of Pattern 747 (incorrectly labelled as 767) was illustrated by Geoffrey Godden in Ridgway Porcelains (1985), p.19, Colour Plate 2.
The square dessert dish is 235mm long and 197mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
The leaf dish is 225mm long. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 203mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Millea Bros. Auctions, Boonton NJ. 2020
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Pattern 767
"Japan Opaque China"
For other examples of the same print see the "Japan Opaque China" print page.
N.B. The similarly decorated, but bone china, service labelled as pattern 767 in Colour Plate 2 on page 19 of Godden's Ridgway Porcelains (Woodbridge, 1985) is, in fact, pattern 747 as stated in the list of Colour Plates. A fruit basket and stand of pattern 767 is correctly labelled on page 27, Plate 19.
See also K. Church, 'J. & W. Ridgway - Anonymous Marks', Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter 107 (Sep. 1997), 14-19.
The dessert centre piece is 302mm long, 228mm wide, and 137mm high. Earthenware.
Exactly what is written on this part of the ribbon, and what it stands for, is something of a mystery. It appears to read "JRϹSX" or possibly "JRΣSX", but no one has been able to suggest the meaning.
The square desesrt dish is 234mm long and 185mm wide. Earthenware.
Perhaps the middle character is intended to be an ampersand, so "JR&SX"? That still doesn't explain the "X", but "JR&S" could be for Job Ridgway and Sons. The low pattern number makes it probable that Job Ridgway was still the senior partner at this time.
The oval dessert dish is 254mm long and 192mm wide. Earthenware.
The "7" is probably a tally mark.
The shell dessert dish is 221mm long and 204mm wide. Earthenware.
There is a crack leading from the bottom left corner of the backstamp through the foot and part way to the edge. The way the glaze has gathered round it inside the foot rim indicates it was originally a firing crack, but has developed with age.
The "2" is probably a tally mark.
The dessert plate is 210mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 775
The service. Bone china.
Photos © Ed Rigoulot 2019
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Pattern 805
The leaf dessert dish is 230mm long. Bone china.
Photos © Maple Lane Arts Ltd. 2021
The dessert plate is 203mm in diameter. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 203mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Bonnie Jean Seiwell ~ Lady in Decadence 2021
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Pattern 806
This pattern has floral moulding on the border.
I admit to being a little mystified by the difference between patterns 637 and 806. The fruit basket and stand (637) and the dessert plate (637) both have gilt centre rings round the print, whereas the shell dish (637) and the comport (806) do not. Equally the fruit basket and stand (637) and the comport (806) both have heavily gilt handles, whereas the shell dish (637) only has a simple gilt outline. Either difference would, I would have thought, require a new pattern number. However, this is an early period and the patterns were not always consistently held to. If anyone reading this has pieces of either pattern number, even if they seem substantially different, I would be very interested and grateful to hear of them.
The comport is 313mm long, 211mm wide and 118mm high. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 812
The sauce tureen & cover is 200mm long and 190mm tall. Bone china.
The leaf dessert dish and dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © valere-4983 2021
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Pattern 816
The leaf dessert dish is 229mm long. Earthenware.
Photos © Jonathan Charles Purt 2020
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Pattern 831
The tureen and cover are 156mm high, 210mm long and 136mm wide.
The pierced ladle is 167mm long and the bowl 63mm in diameter.
Earthenware.
The ladle has no pattern number on it.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 833
The printed script titles indicate a series of different prints.
"A Market Farmer of Appenzell." The dessert plate is 210mm in diameter at the widest point. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
"A Cowherd of Oberhasli." The dessert plate is 213mm in diameter. Earthenware.
There is no pattern number on this plate but the edge colour indicates it should have the same pattern number as the above plate.
Photos © Martyn Edgell 2020
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Pattern 843
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Chris Holland 2023
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Pattern 844 "Dresden Opaque China"
See: K. Church, 'J & W Ridgway - Anonymous Marks', Northern Ceramics Society Newsletter 107 (September 1997), 14-19.
For other examples of the same print see the "Dresden Opaque China" print page.
The dessert tureen is 190mm long, 140mm wide, and 147mm tall. Earthenware.
Photos © Len Kling 2018
The dessert plate is 211mm in diameter. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2017
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Pattern 857
The shell dish. Bone china.
The dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © Agnieszka Chudoba 2023
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Pattern 860
The shell dish is 232mm long and 204mm wide. Earthenware.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
The dessert plate. Earthenware.
Note there is unusually no grape sprigs on the plate in this pattern.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2020
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Pattern 862
For table wares with the same decoration see here.
The shell dish is 226mm long and 205mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 865
The shell dish is 227mm long and 205mm wide. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter at the widest point.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 895
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 1015
The dessert plate 194mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © UK Salvage Art 2020
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Examples with tea ware numbering:
Pattern 2/21 blue
Curiously this pattern appears in at least two colour versions. This probably indicates that many of the early patterns were available in more than one colour. This would not have happened later. It is clear from the later pattern books that any slight change would mean a new pattern number.
The square dessert dish is 238mm long and 184mm wide. Bone china.
The pattern number has been partially erased.
The leaf dessert dish is 222mm long and 200mm wide. Bone china.
Photos © Robert Hawker 2023
The dessert plate is 207mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 2/21 pink
The dessert plate is 207mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 2/254
The dessert plate is 201mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 2/269
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter. Bone china.
Photos © Thomas Tressler ~ sting-rayae 2021
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Pattern 2/578
The fruit basket and stand is 254mm long. Bone china.
Photos © Carolyn Stoddart-Scott 2023
The dessert plate is 205mm in diameter at the widest point. Bone china.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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Pattern 2/599
The dessert plate. Bone china.
Photos © Gemma Jackson 2021
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Pattern 2/643 (blue vase)
This is another example of a pattern to be found in at least two colours. For the brown vase version click here.
The square dish is 235mm long and 192mm wide. Bone china.
The dessert plate is 204mm in diameter at the widest point.
Photos © Angela Grant 2009
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