Antique Ridgways Plate - Rock A Bye Baby Dish RARE Mother Goose Collection

Description

Item:
Antique “
RIDGWAYS
” Mother Goose Plate
Description:
For sale is a quite old
Miniature Plate
made of
English Porcelain
by the
“RIDGWAY POTTERY” Company
.
This particular plate is part of their Mother Goose Collection.   Specifically, it is the
“Rock-A-Bye Baby”
plate.   It measures 4” across.   Below is a brief history of the Ridgway Company until their merger with
Booths & Colclough
in the 1940’s and later
Royal Doulton
in the 1960’s.  I am sure my photos will best further describe the plate itself.
Ridgway Pottery was one of the earliest Staffordshire potteries, founded by Ralph Ridgway during 1744. However, it was in 1792, the brothers George and Job Ridgway registered Ridgway Potteries Limited at Bell Works, North Staffordshire, England. It was here that the first type of Ridgwayware was produced.
The Ridgwayware included dessert, tea, and dinner services, and they competed with Mintonware as well as with the products from Spode, Rockingham, and Worcester. However, it was the Ridgway's high quality earthenware with blue printed designs that were extremely popular.
John, William Ridgway & Company continued to make attractive dishes, but not in the old blue printed designs. Ridgway Pottery later merged with the Booths & Colclough China Company during the 1940’s, and later became a part of Royal Doulton in the 1960’s.
Condition:
For being at least 70 years old, this plate is in
Excellent Condition
.
There are absolutely
ZERO Cracks.
Its only sign of age is a beautiful crackled glaze, some slight wear to the surface glaze and just two pinhead size airholes that opened up.
They just barely penetrate the surface though.
My photos are an accurate depiction of this item’s
TRUE
Condition.
On a scale of 1 – 10 (ten being MINT), I can confidently rate this plate to be a
solid 7.5 AT LEAST.
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.
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