Rare Antique 18C Wedgwood blue white transfer ware blue willow plates

Here is a pair very unusual antique Wedgwood blue white transfer ware of blue willow pattern. Exact copy of Chinese export blue willow plates. On bottom marked "Wedgwood" and 2 star mark.

Size: one has an edge chip and a hair line in the middle, the other one has a edge chip. Because blue willow is such a popular pattern, there are many blue willow plates around, even many antique blue willow transfer wares. However, these 2 are very rare ones and very early ones. The earliest blue willow I have seen are early 18.

Century Qianlong period Chinese export hand painted blue willow plates. These 2 plates are transfer ware, but they are exact copy of the early 18C Chinese export hand painted blue willow. They are exact copy down to very small details: the willow, the house, the rock. The later transfer ware of blue willow pattern always had some variations more or less.

This suggest these 2 plates were likely made in the 18. Century, close to the time when the Chinese export blue willow reached England. I searched many record of Wedgwood but didn't find the same plate elsewhere. The item "Rare Antique 18C Wedgwood blue white transfer ware blue willow plates" is in sale since Saturday, April 16, 2016.

This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Pottery & China\China & Dinnerware\Blue Willow". The seller is "collecfun" and is located in Monroe Township, New Jersey. This item can be shipped worldwide.