Antique William Adams Fern Adams Blue China Soup Dish c1790

Rare and exquisite Adams Blue English wide rimmed soup dish Manufactured by William Adams Tunstall

• 10-3/8th-inch diameter wide rimmed Englsih soup bowl
• Fern design with W Adams back stamp mark and impressed w Adams Tunstall with gilders marks 967 in hand script.
• This is a rare example of early Ironstone which came to be known as "Adams Blue" due to it's almost violet colour in certain lights.
• William Adams was reputed to be Josiah Wedgwood's favourire pupil. He operated the Greengate Works in Tunstall between 1789 and 1805
• Collectors cabinet condition.