Wedgwood Oakapple Wood Happy Birthday 1998 Plate

At 20.5 cm wide, this Wedgwood Oakapple Wood Happy Birthday 1998 plate, with its Lop-Ear and friends vegetable competition scene and Happy Birthday inscription, is a charming and unusual piece of English character china, the Oakapple Wood characters giving the plate a storybook quality that distinguishes it from the more widely known Beatrix Potter plates in the Wedgwood character plate range.

Made by Wedgwood of Stoke-on-Trent in 1998, this birthday plate features the Oakapple Wood characters, a series of illustrated woodland animal characters in the tradition of English storybook illustration, depicted in a soft, illustrated scene of a vegetable competition. The Oakapple Wood series, which is less widely known than the Beatrix Potter range but equally charming in its soft, pastoral character artwork, represents a corner of the Wedgwood character plate range that is of particular interest to collectors of English nursery china and illustrated storybook collectibles. The Happy Birthday inscription adds a personal note to the decorative scene, and the quality of the Wedgwood bone china production and ceramic printing gives the plate the refinement and durability that the Wedgwood name guarantees. The piece is in very good condition throughout.

• Maker: Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent, England
• Series: Oakapple Wood
• Dimensions: 1 cm (H) x 20.5 cm (W)
• Condition: Very Good
• Features: Lop-Ear and friends vegetable competition scene, Happy Birthday inscription, Wedgwood bone china
• Year: 1998
• SKU: SKU-00228

A charming and unusual Wedgwood character plate for the collector of English nursery china. Pairs naturally with the 1993 birthday plate, the 1995 birthday plate, and the 2002 calendar plate in the Wedgwood collection.