Antique Wedgwood Caneware Game Pie Dish with Pheasant Finial Handle c1860

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Seller: deewainhouse ✉️ (9,096) 100%, Location: Washaway, GB, Ships to: GB, US, Item: 395292053474 Antique Wedgwood Caneware Game Pie Dish with Pheasant Finial Handle c1860.

Antique Wedgwood Caneware Game Pie Dish with pheasant Finial Handle c1860

Here on offer is a Wedgwood, caneware, game pie dish and cover. The dish would have had a liner which would have been put into the oven containing a game casserole. When cooked it would be placed into the dish and taken to the table, as the liner is missing the lid does not fit comfortably on the bases gallerynrim. The cane coloured earthenware dish was made to resemble a pastry pie crust.  Caneware, introduced in the 1770s, is generally found unglazed except for the interior of tableware. In 1786, Richard Lovell Edgworth suggested to Josiah Wedgwood that ‘oval baking dishes… in the shape of raised paste pies…would be a saleable article’ and the Oven Books record some 4,000 decorated ‘cane piys’ made in 1794-5, the first year of production. Other potters followed suit, and such pie dishes moulded to mimic pastry, or sometimes in the form of animals or game birds, became particularly popular in the early years of the late 18th and early 19th Century when flour was in short supply. The Staffordshire Advertiser of 3 May 1800 records rioters seizing potatoes and flour and the Royal Household forbade the use of flour for pastry.

 

This example is moulded with various examples of game birds and the lid has a hare beneath the pheasants, with pheasants as the finial. The cover with freshly caught game birds and hare in relief is unglazed. The sides are decorated with swags of ferns and branches and hanging game birds in relief with rope twist borders. The dish has vertical mould marks at either end and an inner gallery rim which supports the cover; it is glazed on the inside beneath the rim. The outer surface is unglazed.

 

The base has a chip on the lower edge, the lid appears to have been broken and repaired, please study the photos. The piece has no maker mark, but is generally attributed to Wedgwood in the mid-1800s.

 

The dish measures approx. 26cm by 19.5cm by 17.5cm.

 

A rare collectable dish.

 

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  • Antique: Yes
  • Type: Game dish
  • Original/Repro: Original
  • Material: Ceramic/Porcelain
  • Country/Region: United Kingdom
  • Age: 1850-1899
  • Maker: Wedgwood

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