Creamware, also known as "Queens Ware" is the cream-coloured English earthenware developed by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1760s. The invention of creamware was the result of experimentation in order to find a British substitute for imported Chinese porcelain, and the cream colour was considered a fault at the time. The lightweight fine white earthenware with a clean rich yellowish proved ideal for domestic ware.

Royal patronage boosted sales. In 1765 Queen Charlotte, the consort of King George III placed an order for a 12 place tea set and allowed Wedgwood to use the name "Queens Ware" for the line. more...

The Wedgwood Pottery Company has been in operation for over 250 years. Founded in 1759 in England by Josiah Wedgwood, the company quickly became known for its high-quality pottery and innovative designs.

In the early years of the company, Josiah Wedgwood was focused on creating new types of pottery that would meet the demands of the changing market. He introduced a variety of new techniques, including the use of transfer printing, which allowed for intricate designs to be applied to pottery quickly and easily.

One of Wedgwood's most famous designs was the Jasperware line, which was introduced in more...

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Wedgwood, assorted creamware, 19th century and later, slipcast…

Wedgwood Creamware Set with Grapevine Design

Wedgwood, assorted creamware, 19th century and later, slipcast glazed earthenware, comprising one large comport decorated with bands of grape vines and matching underplate, two graduated and reticulated baskets, and one partially reticulated tureen with…

A Wedgwood (after the original) Queen's Ware, views on the…

Wedgwood Queen's Ware Thames Icecup

A Wedgwood (after the original) Queen's Ware, views on the Thames near London, Icecup, limited Ed 1997/4000, height 7 cm

Four Wedgwood teacups and saucers + creamware milk jug an 18th…

Antique Wedgwood Tea Sets and Creamware Vessel

Four Wedgwood teacups and saucers + creamware milk jug an 18th century Imari set and a blue and white set. 19th century Jasperware and a basalt sets, and an unusual 18th century creamware Wedgwood vessel, part of a warm drink set. (5)

Early 19th century Wedgwood creamware lattice bowl

Wedgwood Lattice Creamware Bowl, 19th Century

Early 19th century Wedgwood creamware lattice bowl

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, with a matte green…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Green Vase

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, with a matte green glaze and lathed banding to body. Keith Murray signature and Wedgwood marks to base, height 19 cm, depth 17.5 cm, Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with edgwood in the early 1930s.…

A suite of demitasse cups and saucers designed by Keith Murray…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Demitasse Cups and Saucers

A suite of demitasse cups and saucers designed by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, with a lathed band of lines to the center of the cups and silver gilt handles. 'Wedgwood Km' mark to base. Some wear, height 6.5 cm, diameter 12 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981)…

A pair of Keith Murray for Wedgwood mugs, in a matte green…

Keith Murray for Wedgwood Green Matte Glaze Mugs

A pair of Keith Murray for Wedgwood mugs, in a matte green glaze. Keith Murray signature and Wedgwood factory marks to base, height 12.5 cm, width 13 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with Wedgwood in the early 1930s. Originally in creamware,…

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, matte straw glaze,…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Spherical Vase

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, matte straw glaze, and incised banding to body. Impressed maker's mark to base, height 16 cm, diameter 14 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with Wedgwood in the early 1930s. Originally in creamware,…

A shoulder vase by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, shape 3805, in a…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Shoulder Vase in Green Glaze

A shoulder vase by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, shape 3805, in a matt green glaze. Keith Murray signature and Wedgwood factory marks to base, height 28.5 cm, diameter 20 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with Wedgwood in the early 1930s.…

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, with a matte white…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Spherical Vase

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood spherical vase, with a matte white glaze and lathed banding to body. Keith Murray signature and Wedgwood marks to base, height 15.5 cm, diameter 14 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with Wedgwood in the early 1930s.…

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood bowl, with a white matte glaze, and…

Keith Murray Wedgwood Bowl with Modernist Design

A Keith Murray for Wedgwood bowl, with a white matte glaze, and lathed concentric circles to top and bottom rim. 'Wedgwood of Etruria' mark to base. Chip to foot, height 10 cm, diameter 22 cm. Keith Murray (1892-1981) started working with Wedgwood in the…

Victorian Wedgwood red transfer creamware plate, impressed mark…

Victorian Wedgwood Red Transfer Creamware Plate, 1870

Victorian Wedgwood red transfer creamware plate, impressed mark to base, circa 1870, diameter 23.5 cm

Georgian Wedgwood creamware reticulated plate reticulated…

Georgian Wedgwood Creamware Plate with Reticulated Border

Georgian Wedgwood creamware reticulated plate reticulated border, hand painted loop/ dot decoration, circa 1780, diameter 19 cm.

A Wedgwood gilded creamware dinner set for twelve comprising…

Gilded Wedgwood Creamware Dinner Set for 12

A Wedgwood gilded creamware dinner set for twelve comprising ninety three pieces, with gilded edges and embossed scrolling floriate border, stamped 'Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston' and editioned to the base the largest platter 46.5 cm diameter

Three creamware dishes, Wedgwood and Leeds, 18th century, circa…

18th Century Creamware Dishes with Bird and Temple Decorations

Three creamware dishes, Wedgwood and Leeds, 18th century, circa 1770, each with a feather mould rim. The first decorated with Liverpool birds by Sadler and green. No marks to base. The second lobed in form, decorated with Liverpool birds by Sadler and…

A matching pair of Wedgwood creamware armorial dishes, 18th…

Wedgwood Armorial Dishes with Honywood Crest and Arms

A matching pair of Wedgwood creamware armorial dishes, 18th century, both with a colourful and distinctive border incorporating the Honywood crest at the top. To the centre of each plate are the arms of Honywood impaling Courtney, celebrating the marriage…

Georgian Wedgwood ' Liverpool Birds' plate creamware plate,…

Georgian Liverpool Birds Wedgwood Plate

Georgian Wedgwood ' Liverpool Birds' plate creamware plate, pheasant decorated, circa 1760, diameter 22 cm.

A collection of five Wedgwood creamware armorial dishes, 18th…

Wedgwood Creamware Armorial Dishes Collection

A collection of five Wedgwood creamware armorial dishes, 18th century, the first being a soup bowl with blue gilt borders, painted centrally with the arms, crest and motto ('Nosce Teipsum') for Samuel Ecton of Northampton impaling those of this wife,…

Pair Wedgwood 'Edme' creamware table lamp bases each fitted for…

Pair of Wedgwood Creamware Table Lamp Bases

Pair Wedgwood 'Edme' creamware table lamp bases each fitted for electric connection, height 30 cm, each.

A Wedgwood Etruria creamware fruit bowl on pedestal base,…

Wedgwood Creamware Fruit Bowl on Pedestal - 20.5cm Diameter

A Wedgwood Etruria creamware fruit bowl on pedestal base, diameter 20.5 cm

Pair antique Wedgwood creamware oyster plates each with five…

Antique Wedgwood Oyster Plates with Sauce Bowl (Pair)

Pair antique Wedgwood creamware oyster plates each with five segmented sections and central sauce bowl, marked to base and # 619, diameter 23 cm each.

Wedgwood & Bentley variegated creamware urn, two handles, with…

Wedgwood & Bentley Variegated Creamware Urn with Cover

Wedgwood & Bentley variegated creamware urn, two handles, with cover. Basalt square base, marked Wedgwood & Bentley around bolt. C1770. 25 cm high

Antique five piece Wedgwood creamware set including 3 scalloped…

Wedgwood Creamware Set with Scalloped Bowls and Wall Chargers

Antique five piece Wedgwood creamware set including 3 scalloped oval shape serving bowls, length 29 cm, each; and and pair wall chargers, each with embossed decoration, diameter 30 cm, each; all with impressed marking to bases.

A Wedgwood creamware scallop edge dish with hand painted image…

Wedgwood Creamware Dish with Children in Mock Battle

A Wedgwood creamware scallop edge dish with hand painted image of children in mock Battle and sign on wall, 'Eturia School', signed E. Lessone, circa 1865, Wedgwood date code Axq, height 29 cm. Provenance: Zeitlin collection of English ceramics, Skinner…

Four antique Wedgwood Creamware serving dishes leaf form blue…

Antique Wedgwood Creamware Leaf-Shaped Serving Dishes

Four antique Wedgwood Creamware serving dishes leaf form blue and white dishes including pair, diameter 22 cm and pair, diameter 26 cm impressed mark to bases,early 19th century

Set fifteen Wedgwood Creamware entree plates blue and white…

19th Century Wedgwood Creamware Entree Plates with Blue Leaves

Set fifteen Wedgwood Creamware entree plates blue and white leaf form plates, basket weave borders, gilded rims, impressed mark to bases, early 19th century, diameter 21 cm each

Four antique Wedgwood Creamware serving dishes blue and white…

Antique Wedgwood Creamware Leaf Dishes with Gilded Rims

Four antique Wedgwood Creamware serving dishes blue and white leaf form dishes, including set of 3, and 1 other, with gilded rims, impressed mark to bases, early 19th century, diameter 28 cm, 3, and 34 cm 1

Antique Wedgwood Creamware comport & stand each with blue and…

Wedgwood Creamware Comport and Stand with Blue Leaf Decoration

Antique Wedgwood Creamware comport & stand each with blue and white leaf form decoration, including dual handle comport, height 20 cm, length 33 cm and under plate, length 35 cm gilt rims, impressed mark to bases

Wedgwood Leedsware tableware Leedsware Classical Creamware…

Wedgwood Leedsware Creamware Tableware Set

Wedgwood Leedsware tableware Leedsware Classical Creamware collection, including teapot, 2 lidded sugar bowls, cream jug, pair shell form bowls, and 3 large serving plates.

An early 19th century Wedgwood creamware dish, lobed oval form,…

Wedgwood Creamware Oval Dish with Pierced Rim

An early 19th century Wedgwood creamware dish, lobed oval form, pierced rim, impressed maker's mark to base. Length 28 cm

Wedgwood Creamware dish, of deep oval form, decorated with game…

Game Birds and Grape Vine Oval Dish

Wedgwood Creamware dish, of deep oval form, decorated with game birds and garlands of grape vine motifs, length 23.5 cm

Wedgwood mug, 1959 Creamware designed by Victory Shellern…

Wedgwood Bicentenary Creamware Mug, 1959

Wedgwood mug, 1959 Creamware designed by Victory Shellern marking the Wedgwood Bicentenary 1959, height 12 cm

Wedgwood, cream ware footbath, c. 1820, of oval form with two…

Wedgwood Creamware Footbath, c. 1820

Wedgwood, cream ware footbath, c. 1820, of oval form with two loop handles on each side, impressed 'Wedgwood P' to underside, height 28 cm width 44 cm depth 34 cm. Provenance: Shapiro Auctioneers, L. Richard Smith collection of Wedgwood, lot 269,…

Wedgwood, cream ware condiment set, c. 1780, comprising salt,…

Wedgwood Condiment Set, c. 1780

Wedgwood, cream ware condiment set, c. 1780, comprising salt, pepper and mustard pot, all impressed to undersides 'Wedgwood' (3), height 17 cm length 36 cm. Provenance: Alan Landis Antiques, Sydney. Collection of George and Adisa Pompei, Sydney

Wedgwood plaque 'Death of a Roman Warrior' plaque with Lord…

Wedgwood's 'Death of Roman Warrior' Plaque with Signature

Wedgwood plaque 'Death of a Roman Warrior' plaque with Lord Wedgwood signature in Queen's Ware after an 18th century black basalt original, of rectangular shape with high relief depiction of death of a Roman warrior, from the Genius collection, numbered…

Wedgwood, a large 'Australian Flora' porcelain serving platter,…

Wedgwood's 'Australian Flora' Porcelain Platter, 1882

Wedgwood, a large 'Australian Flora' porcelain serving platter, 1882, creamware, transfer printed and hand painted decoration adapted from designs by Helena Forde, Australia, 1879, made by Wedgwood, England, 1882, stamped and printed: Wedgwood Australian…

A Wedgwood creamware teapot and saucer, squat circular shape…

Wedgwood Creamware Teapot with Dog Finial and Saucer

A Wedgwood creamware teapot and saucer, squat circular shape with moulded pattern, the lid with dog finial. c. 81.7 cm

Two antique Wedgwood Creamware open worked baskets with…

Pair of Wedgwood Creamware Baskets with Underplates

Two antique Wedgwood Creamware open worked baskets with Underplates

A large Wedgwood Creamware footed bowl, circa 1912. The bowl…

Wedgwood Creamware Bowl with Sailing Ships Design

A large Wedgwood Creamware footed bowl, circa 1912. The bowl with short festooned handles and a flaring pedestal, decorated to the interior and exterior in underglaze blue with sailing ships in a harbour setting surrounded by antique buildings, with a…

Two Wedgwood 'Edme' Creamware tureens, second half 20th century,…

Pair of Wedgwood Creamware Tureens

Two Wedgwood 'Edme' Creamware tureens, second half 20th century, the classically styled pedestal tureens with gadrooned bodies and laurel leaf moulded rims and ram's head handles, one with a conforming lid; black backstamp underside with mark of Etruria…

A Wedgwood Queens ware cream bowl with grapevine border, circa…

Wedgwood Grapevine Cream Bowl and Dinner Set

A Wedgwood Queens ware cream bowl with grapevine border, circa 1920, 23 cm diameter, 3 similarly decorated plates and a grape pattern part dinner set

19th century Wedgwood creamware dish 29.5 cm x 18 cm, 4 cm high…

19th Century Wedgwood Creamware Dish

19th century Wedgwood creamware dish 29.5 cm x 18 cm, 4 cm high approx

A Wedgwood creamware porcelain basket, English, 18th century.…

18th Century Wedgwood Porcelain Basket

A Wedgwood creamware porcelain basket, English, 18th century. 33 cm diameter

A fine Wedgwood cream ware cup and saucer with feather moulding…

Wedgwood Cream Cup and Saucer with Feather Moulding and Birds

A fine Wedgwood cream ware cup and saucer with feather moulding to each and a mauve print of fancy birds to each piece. Intertwined handle with moulded terminals. Impressed Wedgwood. Circa 1835

A fine, probably Wedgwood, cream ware plate of Queen's shape,…

Wedgwood Creamware Plate with Fancy Bird Print

A fine, probably Wedgwood, cream ware plate of Queen's shape, with a shaped wavy edge and decorated with a print of fancy birds in red. Six other prints of birds to the edge, probably by Saddler & green. Unmarked, circa 1780, width 15 cm

A collection of Wedgwood Queen's ware, comprising 35 dinner…

Wedgwood Queen's Ware Collection

A collection of Wedgwood Queen's ware, comprising 35 dinner plates, 4 larger dinner platters, 24 side plates, 6 tea cups and 13 saucers, a sauce boat, 2 tea pots (approximately), (housed in top right drawers)

Boxed set of four Wedgwood Queens Ware dishes

Wedgwood Queens Ware Set of 4 Dishes

Boxed set of four Wedgwood Queens Ware dishes

A Wedgwood Creamware dish, 1884, an oval shaped dish with an…

Wedgwood Creamware Dish with Floral Spray Design

A Wedgwood Creamware dish, 1884, an oval shaped dish with an impressed basket weave design to the raised sides and green embellishments, painted to the centre with a loose spray of roses, tulips and forget-me-nots; impressed marks underside. Height 4.5 cm…

Wedgwood cream ware soup tureen

Wedgwood Cream Ware Tureen

Wedgwood cream ware soup tureen