Antique Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Porcelain "Moorish Smoke & Ribbons" Bowl 1920

A fine & rare antique Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Porcelain octagonal bowl, designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones, Circa 1920.
The large octagonal shaped bowl combines two rare patterns, to the outside is the "Moorish" pattern & to the interior is the "Smoke & Ribbons" pattern. 
The exterior is decorated with a dark blue glaze with gilded Moorish arches with fantastical masks & ghostly gilded fairies, the interior with panels with Moorish palaces and fairies and flying ribbons. The base is stamped "Wedgwood England" with the Portland vase symbol & the shape/model number "Z5125T", condition is excellent, no damage or restoration. A fine & rare antique Fairyland Lustre porcelain bowl.

Biography
Susannah Margaretta "Daisy" Makeig-Jones (1881-1945) born in a Yorkshire mining village in South Yorkshire, she grew up in a close-knit middle class Victorian home. Daisy was taught by a governess at home, then attended a boarding school near Rugby and thereafter attended Art schools in Torquay & London. She joined Wedgwood as an apprentice painter in 1909.
Daisy grew up in a period which expressed its extraordinary fascination with fairy-tales and folklore in an outpouring of books, paintings and plays. It should not be surprising that as an adult, she drew upon these sources for inspiration. Fairies were first used in the decoration of the wares in 1916 and over sixty-two pattern numbers were assigned to the fairyland range. Daisy had already used illustrations from Hans Andersen's tale of Thumbelina on designs for children’s ware. For her depiction of Fairyland Lustre she borrowed from a rich variety of published material. 
The success of her work continued in the Twenties and further but the end of the decade brought profound changes. The Wall Street slump of 1929 affected the prosperity of the whole pottery industry. Popular taste was moving away from richly colored ornamentation towards more subdued tones and plainer styles. 
Although Daisy left Wedgwood in 1931, the production of a very limited range of the lustre designs continued until 1941 when the remaining stock was sold off. Fairyland Lustre had been Wedgwood’s best selling line in bone china ornaments. Daisy’s creations had not only helped to pull Wedgwood through the troughs of a financial depression, they have secured for her a unique niche on the long history of English ceramics.

Imperial

4.3 inches high × 8.7 inches wide × 8.7 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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