Beautiful Large Turkey Platter
Blue and White with Turkey painted in center, Farmhouse and turkeys in background, with flower pattern around the edge.
Back has Ridgway England and motiff of Beehive and Urn.
Perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Makes a wonderful gift.
Ridgway potteries had a celobrated history, you can trace the Ridgway family name back to the earliest days of the Staffirdshire Potteries, along with Adams and Wedgwood. Once ascendent name in the world of fine Bone China.
In the 1800s William and John took over the Couldon works founded by their father Job Ridgway in 1802.
John Ridgway was appointed Potter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria earning a high commendation at the 1851. Exhibition. You can't get better acclaim than that as a Potter.