Antique Wedgwood Bone China Tall Comport c1880 Botanical Fruit Asters 25cm

Victorian Wedgwood bone china tall comport (pedestal dessert dish), c.1880s, decorated on top with a fruiting branch bearing orange-red fruit, and on the underside of the dish with asters and pink geranium, so it shows from below on the table. Small sprigs to the foot and gilt lines to the stem.

The underside carries the printed iron-red Portland vase WEDGWOOD mark used on Wedgwood bone china from 1878. The sprays are transfer-printed in outline and coloured by hand in enamels, typical of Wedgwood's Aesthetic Movement botanical wares of the 1880s.

Size: approx. 24.8 cm diameter.

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