105 - WEDGWOOD, A MID 1940’S HAND PAINTED AND GILT 'WREATHED SHELL' PLATE

WEDGWOOD, A MID 1940’S HAND PAINTED AND GILT 'WREATHED SHELL' PLATE Scallop shell form with impressed ridges, central hand painted polychrome flowers and leaf with applied gilt highlights amongst a white ground held within a gilt border. Marked & impressed to underside. (length 22.4cm x w 21.7cm) N.B. Wedgwood's 1878 Illustrated Catalogue of Ornamental Shapes. Illustrated under the heading of 'Comports' illustration ‘V.’ with the title ‘Pectin Japonicum’. The full page showing various shells that comprised the forms of its 'Wreathed Shell' service. Initiated in creamware around 1790 - 1795, the service proved most popular. It was reworked in the 19th Century and produced through the 19th Century & 20th Century in a variety of bodies including pearlware, white ware, Majolica, and moonlight lustre up until the late 1960’s