A very rare Wedgwood Majolica ‘Tremblay’ Renaissance style tray c.1865, designed by Thomas Greatbach, only known example. The circular tray with two grey glazed coiled snake handles, a turquoise glazed border, and a grey panel of Renaissance style grey designs. The circular central medallion with an aqua ‘Tremblay’ picture of a young girl, with a border of turquoise and yellow and a wider boarder of mottled brown and yellow. 14 ¼”. The ‘Tremblay’ process, also known as ‘Email Ombrant’, was developed by Baron Du Tremblay at the Roubelles porcelain works in France and patented by him on 27th April 1842. Wedgwood began producing ‘Tremblay’ pieces in 1862 and a letter from Wedgwood to the London Pottery and Porcelain retailers Thomas Goode read “We are losing no time with the Tremblay Dessert trials but you must not expect any modeler to be able to arrive at such delicacy of modeling as that is at once. Indeed we cannot promise that we shall be able to succeed yet’’.
'CURATED & CATALOGUED BY NICOLAUS BOSTON'

Condition reports are available upon request.