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A rare WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE PLATE SIGNED JACQUES BOSELLY, Circa 1775.
Painted with a peasant woman standing before a tree stump holding an open basket, feather moulded rim, impressed Wedgwood, black painted signature Jacques Boselly.
25cm diameter. With loan label for Capt Hereford Aug.15th 1884.
Glaze chip and some small glaze nicks around the rim. Some light surface scratches to the centre
Giacomo Boselli (1744 -1808) was an Italian ceramics sculptor and painter, of the Rococo period. Trained in Marseille and Liguria, he mainly worked in his native town of Savona in his father's factory producing painted porcelain, maiolica, and earthenware. His wife Clara (Chiarina) Boselli was a skilled painter.
Of note in 1869 the collector Charlotte Schreiber was offered a set of six creamware cups decorated with red landscapes by Boselly and marked Wedgwood, she considered them fakes.(Schreiber Journal 22.may 1869) It is possible that one of these was later collected by and given by Frank Tilley to the V&A (16/07/2008) and in my opinion wrongly labelled as "made in Savona", The two cups being English made and decorated in Savona. There is also an unmarked English, creamware plate in the V&A collection again decorated by Boselly but with the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV (1740-58). |
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