Featured Wedgewood plaque date?

Wondering age if anyone is good at these? Things it came with were most of not all 20th c. This one o figures could be older or could not be. Google image didn’t get an exact hit but many like it. Some are 18th c that are pretty similar. I’m a Wedgewood illiterate though. Excuse the poor lighting.

 

well, as a well known member here likes to point out....... there is no ' E ' in your Wedgwood !!

 

The only Wedgwood reference I have speaks of a marking system consisting of 3 letters where the third letter was the year. Author seems a bit uncertain about the range of marks that were used. Your single letter L could be year, could be maker. In the 3-letter marks, L was 1883.

She's similar to the figures known as the Dancing Hours, which were designed by John Flaxman. He may also have done this lady.

 

The font matters. There’s multiple dating systems, earlier and later. I’ll go check.

 

Oh, and no e.

 

To be fair, dagger did say he was Wedg(e)wood illiterate.

 

I saw that.

 

I believe Wedgwoods' date marks involve a three-letter/digit code, not a single letter?




And from THIS source:
"Various single letters, numbers and symbols are often found on pieces and indicated the potter or decorator, so his pieces could be counted and he could be paid for them. These are not date marks and, with a few notable exceptions, have no meaning to us now."
and
"A three letter date code is sometimes found and starts in 1860 but is rarely found on jasper or basalt items; it absence is not indicative of any date... Single letters are not date letters, they're tally marks, used to identify the potters who worked on a piece so they could be paid."
And they state that the serif Wedgwood mark is pre-1930.

 

The early ones do, it’s not a date letter. I’d agree on piecework. I know it’s pre 1930, but the font changed a few times. Can’t find the book. Arg.

 

Touché!!!

 

Thanks for your contributions everyone! It’s looks like from bluumz post that after 1891 England is sort of the mark? So pre 1891?

 

From the font alone, I think pre 1891.

 

The logo itself doesn't appear to have changed after 1812.

Debora

 

I think early to mid 19th century

 

That’s what it looks like to my eye but I don’t handle enough Wedgwood to count on my eye. I’ll say firmly before 1891 and possibly as old as early 19th.

 

Thanks guys. Looks like warm soapy water is the way to go on cleaning these.

Anyone think I should try to preserve the pencil notes? Does that say “Cologne” and “right” towards bottom!

 

Absolutely preserve the notes. A wee scrap of magic eraser will clean the sprig.