A Minton majolica game pie dish and cover and a Wedgwood caneware game pie dish and cover, dated 1869 and 1870

the Minton dish brightly painted and moulded with dead game, oak leaves and basket work, impressed MINTON, date code for 1869, the Wedgwood pie dish and cover, applied with models of dead game hanging from garlands, impressed WEDGWOOD, date letter for 1870,

Wedgewood caneware dish: there is a hairline crack to dish at rim Majolica dish and cover: in good condition, typical glaze crazing only
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The first entries in the Oven Book records at Wedgwood for such caneware game dishes occur in 1794. Captain Jesse mentions such tureens in his work The life of George Brummell, esq., commonly called Beau Brummell, 1844:

'The scarcity two years after Brummell’s retirement, viz, in July, 1800, was so great, that the consumption of flour for pastry was prohibited in the Royal Household, rice being used instead; the distillers left off malting, hackney-coach fares were raised twenty-five percent, and Wedgwood made dishes to represent pie-crust'.