Blue and white Semi China "English Scenery" Query

by Jackie
(UK)

Blue and white Semi China "English Scenery" Query:- I am researching for a friend. She has a blue and white square shaped dish with a central column/handle. It is marked Semi China "English Scenery".

Any information on this would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks ever so...

Jackie

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Reply by Peter (admin)
to Blue and white Semi China "English Scenery" Query

Editors note:

This dish now identified as Mintons 'semi-china' c1825.

Here is the sequential correspondence:-

Hi Jackie

Photos are always necessary for a positive identification, but it sounds like a Ridgways blue & White semi-china plate. The diamond shaped 'semi-china' mark dates from 1927 onwards.

You can find lots of info on Ridgways on this site, just hit one of the search boxes you find on various pages and soak it all up!!

Peter (admin)

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follow up post:-

Hi Jackie

I'll add the photo. Wow, that is some dish!

I have 7 pages of Ridgway marks in my books (they were a giant company - as big as Doulton or Wedgwood), but not that particular one. Other makers used the pattern 'English Scenery', like Adams, Woods, but the term 'semi china' is associated with Ridgway, and 'semi porcelain' with Woods. Adams used the term 'Ironstone'.

Best regards

Peter (admin)

follow up email from Jackie:-

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know, I have had a response from Andrew Pye of Lovers of Blue and White and he says that this bowl is English Scenery by Minton about 1825 and is a pickle or sweetmeat stand. It would originally have had 4 'triangular' small dishes that fitted around the carrying handle and they would have held different pickles.

Thank you once again for your help.

Kind regards,

Jackie

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