Ridgway Saucer, c.1825 and Gold Reflect Teacup

Richard Brendon

£289

Produced by Ridgway circa 1825, this Chinoiserie design features delicately outlined Hibiscus flowers and a border of fashionable Chinese keys. Ridgway was one of the pioneers of English china production, helping to expand the British public’s perception of porcelain and embrace the ‘newfangled’ British bone china designs. Many preferred the tradition of the old Chinese designs, however, and this saucer reflects Ridgway’s fashionable copies of Chinese porcelain in this period. Antique British porcelain is never perfect. During the 1800s, kilns were fired on coal resulting in some firing specks

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