Antique 1800 Staffordshire Wedgwood Creamware Server Cruet w Center Fish Handle For Sale

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Antique 1800 Era Staffordshire Wedgwood Creamware Server Cruet with Center Intertwined Fish Handle. Measures 8 1/2\" long and 6 1/2\" wide; the round holders are 4\" wide and it is about 9 1/2\" high at the fish center. It has a classic reticulated design hand made. Not marked but absolutely guaranteed genuine as described. There are no chips, we found a couple slight normal age separations shown in the last 2 photos. One of 2 pieces of antique creamware we are listing tonight. Christie\'s of London sold this exact same piece on March 3rd 1994 for over $300 and the piece offered here is in better condition. I believe it is Wedgwood but Christie\'s called in European Bohemian in origin.
This is from Christie\'s description: Lot Description A BOHEMIAN CREAMWARE CRUET, THE CENTRAL HANDLE MODELLED AS TWO FISH, THEIR TAILS RAISED IN THE AIR, WITH SHELL-SHAPED SALTS BENEATH THEM, FLANKED BY TWO CYLINDRICAL PIERCED BOTTLE STANDS (CHIPS AND HAIRLINE CRACK) IMPRESSED MARK PRAG, CIRCA 1800 -- 7¾IN. HIGH
Creamware is a cream-coloured, refined earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body, known in France as faïence fine. It was created about 1750 by the potters of Staffordshire, England, who refined the materials and techniques of salt-glazed earthenware towards a finer, thinner, whiter body with a brilliant glassy lead glaze, which proved so ideal for domestic ware that it supplanted white salt-glaze wares by c 1780. It was popular until the 1840s.
Variations of creamware were known as tortoiseshellware, developed by Whieldon with colored stains under the glaze. or Prattware depending on the colour of glaze used. It served as an inexpensive substitute for the soft-paste porcelains being developed by contemporary English manufactories, initially in competition with Chinese export porcelains.The most notable producer of creamware was Josiah Wedgwood, who perfected the ware, beginning during his partnership with the master potter Thomas Whieldon. Around 1779, he was able to lighten the cream colour to a bluish white using cobalt in the lead overglaze. Wedgwood sold this more desirable product under the name pearl ware. Wedgwood supplied his creamware to Queen Charlotte and Catherine the Great and used the trade name Queen\'s ware.Wedgwood and his English competitors sold creamware throughout Europe, sparking local industries, and to the United States.