Deep dish or soup plate
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
1820-1830
Maker
John and William Ridgway (c. 1814-1830)
Measurements
1-1/4 in x 9-7/8 in (dia)
Materials
Transfer-printed white earthenware
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.734
Inscription
"BEAUTIES of AMERICA / OCTAGON CHURCH / BOSTON. / J & W RIDGWAY." is transfer-printed onto the back of the plate.
Condition Notes
A piece of the rim has broken away.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
This brightly printed soup plate or deep dish shows New South Church, popularly called the Octagon Church, designed by Charles Bulfinch and erected in Boston in 1814 and demolished in 1868. The border is a a ring of stylized alternating flowers below an outer guilloche.
The Ridgway partnership produced other scenes of American buildings. The potters worked in Hanley, which was a political subdivision of Stoke-on-Trent, a major center of the Staffordshire pottery trade.
