Hicks & Meigh, Staffordshire ~ Antique Ironstone Large Meat Dish 'Olympian'
This is a fabulous original antique Hicks & Meigh Staffordshire ironstone large meat plate with juices well and drainage channels, having the classic ivory ground with brown transfer printed pattern design. c1815, England.
British Royal Coat of Arms hallmark on back with lion, unicorn and motto 'Dieu et mon Droit' and marked with a transfer print, to the base, "Entered according to the Act and the pattern OLYMPIAN".
A wonderful platter, ideal for roast beef, turkey, lamb, pork or vegetables and would be a fabulous decorative piece for a large dresser. The plate dates circa early 1800's. Condition: The plate is of good heavy quality, having no chips, cracks or old restorations. Plate measures 48 cm wide, 41 cm deep and 6 cm high.
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♥ About vintage items ♥
You are buying a vintage item that already has some life under its wings, and is ready for new one with you. Please bear this in mind when you are receiving your new treasure at home, as it may not be perfect, but certainly authentic. I do my best to describe in words and pictures the nature and condition of this item. Contact me if you need more information or more pictures. ♥ About Hicks & Meigh, Shelton, Staffordshire, 1804-1822 ♥ Job Meigh II, who bought the Ash Estate in 1837, was the son of Job Meigh I (1750-1817), who manufactured pottery on the site of Hanley Old Hall. Job Meigh II, born in 1784, married Elizabeth, daughter of William Mellor of Johnson’s Charles Street Pottery in Hanley, in 1805. Job Meigh II initially worked for his father in the Old Hall Pottery but by 1807 he had left to go into partnership with Richard Hicks, his brother-in-Law. Richard Hicks married Lydia Meigh, daughter of Job Meigh I in 1801. In 1807 he bought a factory in Broad Street, Hanley, were he set up as a pottery manufacturer (in the works established by J & E Baddeley), in partnership with his brother-in-Law, Job Meigh II. In 1815 they rebuilt the works in a typical rectangular courtyard plan with the kilns in a line along the rear. One of the many families who contributed to the phenomenal success of ceramics manufactured in Staffordshire during the late 18th and early 19th Century, few were as well-established as the Meigh family. Earthenwares made at the historically significant Old Hall Pottery in Hanley by the original Job Meigh, his son Job II and grandson Charles, were notable for their quality and durability. While Charles carried on his grandfather’s work and by the 1850s had been honoured in several ways, Job II struck out on his own, in 1803 forming a partnership with Richard Hicks, who had married Job’s sister Lydia in 1801. Job also married a potter’s daughter – Elizabeth Mellor – in 1805 and each of the attachments could be described as marriages made in heaven. The Hicks and Meigh partnership began by manufacturing ironstone in a factory known as the Broad Street Works which they rebuilt and modernised in 1815. The enterprise was a successful one and continued to expand, partly because both partners were, by all accounts, good and honourable men who treated their staff reasonably well – in contrast to some other potteries of that time. In 1820 Thomas Johnson, the firm’s marketing agent, joined the partnership. |
