A Wedgwood Majolica Japonisme Cobalt Blue Garden Seat, the baluster form body with relief-molded alternating birds and fans, with overlapping blossoming prunus branches on a cobalt blue ground, the seat formed as a tufted cushion with yellow ocher glazed roping and tassels, the base with matching double roping, the reverse with impressed marks, 'WEDGWOOD,' and 'AGO' the Wedgwood date code for April 1886; with painted pattern number, 'M-2858,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Fan Garden Seat' as recorded in the Wedgwood Majolica Pattern Books, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wedgwood Collection, World of Wedgwood, Barleston, UK, and reprinted in Bergesen.* This design is documented in the Karmason Library of the Majolica International Society, Number KL001602, with the designation 'Rare.' For over thirty years we have been among the preeminent specialists in fine English majolica. BOOK REFERENCES *Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 195. (Wedgwood Majolica Pattern Numbers, pp. 182-201). Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Volume Two, p. 182, FIG. 15. 22. See the photo of Wedgwood's stand at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition for an example of this garden seat (lower right).