A pair of oval creamware centre dishes of serpentine outline, supported on short stem and splayed foot, decorated with trailing ivy, brown rim.

In November 1909 Queen Mary wrote from Frogmore House, Windsor, to her friend Lady Mount Stephen, with whom she shared many of her investigations into the collections of Queen Charlotte from Frogmore: 'I believe I have here part of what must have been Queen Charlotte's dairy set & I shall have a piece taken to London to be identified by Mr Wedgwood' (RA GV/CC 44/204). An entry in Wedgwood's Ledger G under 'The Queen Windsor' included '12 Milk Pans' supplied at a cost of £s 1 is (information from Miss Gaye Blake-Roberts). This urn and dish may have been intended for the Queen's dairy in the grounds of Frogmore.

The urn corresponds with shape number 1110 ('Butterkit') in the pattern book of Charles Gill, one of Wedgwood's 'travellers' or salesmen (illus. Reilly 1989,1, fig. 395). The precise function of the centre dish is unclear.

Catalogue entry adapted from George III & Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste, London, 2004