BLUE FITZHUGH "TROPHIES" English pearlware 'crescent' dish

BLUE FITZHUGH "TROPHIES"
circa 1770-1800 blue and white English pearlware cresent-shape dish, probably Joshua Heath, Hanley

The "Fitzhugh / Trophies" pattern is so called because associated with the Fitzhugh family around the time of the American Revolution. It is an English pattern inspired by a Chinese porcelain motif incorporating "precious objects" or "trophies".

Joshua Heath, in Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) was one of England's earliest producers of blue printed wares after the Chinese. An old paper label idendifies this with his manufacture, although no idenfifying mark has been found as is typical of many wares of this period.

Length : 13" x 7 " x height 2", with nice continuous foot-rim.

Circa : 1770-1800

Transfer printed in fine detail, this shaped dish was originally from a supper set which fit together to form a circle.
Condition : perfect except for one repaired 1.5" loss beneath rim, otherwise fine

gbr 21301 ........................................................... $ 145.