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Design
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Design
- Place of origin:
Stoke-on-Trent (made)
- Date:
ca. 1840-1846 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
H. & R. Daniel (design company)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Museum number:
E.3852-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level D, case C, shelf 120, box D
This sheet shows designs for ceramics in pen and ink and watercolour annotated with reference numbers. It was produced by a designer at H & R Daniel, a Stoke-on-Trent ceramics factory that was in business between 1822 and 1846. The designer produced numerous sheets of variant designs and these were bound together in a pattern book.
Pattern books were kept in factories for staff to consult, including directors looking for new and attractive designs to put into production, and the painters employed to decorate the ceramics. Today, pattern books are of interest to designers, students and collectors, for the important role they play in identifying unmarked ceramics and for the fascinating variety of patterns they contain, most of which never made it into production.
At some stage in its history, the Daniel factory pattern book was broken up and the sheets became separated. However, 12 sheets did stay together and these were acquired by the V&A in 2004. This particular sheet is thought to date from about 1840–46.
