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Wedgwood & Co. (Ltd) (Royal Tunstall) (Based at Tunstall, Staffordshire, from c. 1860. Renamed Enoch Wedgwood (Tunstall) Ltd in 1960 and then taken over by the Wedgwood Group in 1980 and renamed Unicorn Pottery.)
Dinner plate, white earthenware, circular, press-moulded with an inset base, cushion-moulded profile and plain rim; printed around the well in polychrome colours with four vignettes comprising two different jiving couples to the upper right and lower left, and a repeated vignette of a pianist and saxophonist to the upper left and lower right, each vignette printed in a pallete of grey, red, yellow, pink and black, with hatched yellow and grey lines forming part of the background to each image, the rim painted with a simple band in red.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39319
Creation/Production
Wedgwood & Co. (Ltd) (Royal Tunstall)
Meakin, Alfred
Date: 1961 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 9/12/2011
Measurements
diam
(cm): 24.4
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
Gallery 22A, North : Bay 09
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