Wedgwood Majolica Heron Plate

Victorian

Circa August 1871 | England

A nineteenth century antique Wedgwood heron majolica plate with a pierced rim simulating basketweave, designed by one of the most significant potters of the nineteenth century Joseph Theodore Deck (see The Gen).

DIMENSIONS: Diameter 23 cm.

SIGNATURES, MARKINGS & INSCRIPTIONS: Impressed Wedgwood AWZ.

CONDITION: The plate is in excellent condition with wear consistent with antique age and use and some light crazing. There is no evident restoration.

REFERENCES: For an example of a similar plate see Majolica Pottery, Mariann Katz-Marks, Collectors Books, 1989, p. 57.

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THE GEN

“Joseph Theodore Deck (1823–1891), an important Wedgwood designer and modeler, worked at Etruria from the late 1860s to the 1870s. He was responsible for the series of dessert plates with reticulated borders surrounding low-relief designs of birds in natural settings (c. 1870) … an artist-potter born in Alsace, he had worked as a designer and modeler at Wedgwood from the late 1860s into the 1870s. In France in the 1870s he experimented with various glaze techniques and produced tin-enamelled faience. At the 1878 Paris exhibition he was one of three French exhibitors to win a gold medal for art pottery.” (Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989, pp 85, 188)

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