Wedgwood Majolica 'Vine & Strawberry' plate, English, with a large central green grape leaf, purple grapes, strawberries and blossom on a cobalt ground (rare coloration). Impressed marks to reverse: 'WEDGWOOD' and Wedgwood date code for 1878.

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From its introduction in circa 1875, production of the 'Vine & Strawberry' endured throughout the remainder of Wedgwood's M-Series years (circa 1868-1880) and the K-Series years (1880 through circa 1888), but as Victoria Bergesen observes,

"...Wedgwood Majolica continued until 1910... The story did not end there, however, for as late as 1947 a Wedgwood Catalogue offered 'Colored Vine & Strawberry' plates."

Victoria Bergesen, Majolica: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915. London: Barrie & Jenkins Publishers, 1989, p. 52.

Wedgwood Majolica Pattern Books from the Wedgwood Archive reprinted in Bergesen, pp. 182-201.