A WEDGWOOD CREAM-GLAZED EARTHENWARE LUSTRE CHARGER

Millicent Taplin (1902-1980) was a British designer and painter on ceramics. She was employed by Wedgwood in 1917 and was trained by Alfred and Louise Powell, who had established a school of free-hand paintresses at the Etruria factory works and may have designed the pattern on this charger with Taplin. Eventually, Millicent Taplin was to head the paintresses in the hand-crafts studio both at Etruria and Barlaston. She remained with the firm until 1962. A smaller charger, decorated with the same pattern, was sold at Bonhams, Edinburgh, 24 March 2011, lot 860.