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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ision, post: 2898087, member: 17064&quot;][ATTACH=full]285575[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here are two Wedgwood majolica sculpted character portraits of &quot;Ivanhoe,&quot; and &quot;UrFried&quot; (Ulrica), from the Walter Scott&#039;s novel &quot;Ivanhoe - A Romance&quot; published in 1819.&nbsp; These two portrait tiles are both marked with the ASTERIX impressed stamp, along with the DATE Letter &quot;O&quot; for 1860, and with &quot;WEDGWOOD&quot; with serif font.&nbsp; No other ciphers or marks.&nbsp; Verso without grip pattern and flat.</p><p><br /></p><p>These plaques, or tiles, are rather large, being 13&quot; x 8&quot; without frames.&nbsp; The frames you see are modern plastic.&nbsp;&nbsp; The verso of the plaques are unglazed, pressed white clay, marked when the clay was still plastic.&nbsp; Single color green majolica glaze, using shadow painting to highlight sculpted portraits.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Plaques are flawless, save for a few specs of kiln dirt to glaze, which is very finely and tightly crazed.&nbsp; The sculpting, for a majolica plaque is exceptional quality and the glaze was expertly fired...without pooling...which meant the plaques had to be precisely placed in the kiln.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Male, &quot;Ivanhoe,&quot; plaque was marked by pencil to the verso, below impressed Wedgwood, in cursive hand, &quot;Ivanhoe.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>These character portraits are known in this green and in a dark brown glaze.&nbsp; These two colors were the most stable in the kiln, making them the safest glaze colors to use...and the most common colors of early majolica works, especially majolica tiles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No other internet site lists these tiles as fictional, literary, characters from Scott&#039;s novel, nor will any of the other fictional character portraits Wedgwood made.&nbsp; I have found Dicken&#039;s character &quot;Scrooge&quot; with the same size and markings, for example.&nbsp; Early 1860 creation, for all such portraits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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