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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Cannes

Sweetmeat Stand
ca. 1954 (designed), ca. 1960 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of earthenware. The body of the sweetmeat stand is white. It is moulded in a trefoil shape of three bowls joined at the centre with a metal handle. It is decorated with three small black transfer prints within the dishes of different harbour scenes infilled with enamel colours and the central section is aerographed in sky blue.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Cannes (manufacturer's title)
  • Fashion (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with aerographed, transfer-printed and hand-coloured underglaze decoration
Brief description
Trefoil sweetmeat stand with harbour scene, 'Cannes' pattern, 'Fashion' shape, earthenware, made by W. R. Midwinter Ltd., Burslem, ca. 1960
Physical description
Dish of earthenware. The body of the sweetmeat stand is white. It is moulded in a trefoil shape of three bowls joined at the centre with a metal handle. It is decorated with three small black transfer prints within the dishes of different harbour scenes infilled with enamel colours and the central section is aerographed in sky blue.
Dimensions
  • With handle height: 16cm
  • Width: 23cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Cannes drawings by Hugh Casson / a genuine hand engraving / permanent acid resisting underglaze colour by Midwinter / Stylecraft / STAFFORDSHIRE / ENGLAND / FASHION SHAPE' (Maker's mark printed (underglaze) in black on base)
  • Sketch of seaside town (Maker's mark printed (underglaze) in black on base)
Gallery label
Sweetmeat stand 'Cannes' 'Fashion' designer (decoration) Hugh Casson, designer (shape) Roy Midwinter, manufacturer W.R.Midwinter Ltd., Burslem, England 1954, shape designed about 1954 Earthenware with aerographed, printed and hand-coloured underglaze decoration C.98-1985 Given by Mrs E. Bonython(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Given by Mrs E. Bonython
Production
Fashion shape designed by Roy Midwinter about 1953. Decoration designed 1954.
Bibliographic reference
Breward Christopher and Wood, Ghislaine. British design from 1948:Innovation in the Modern Age . London, V&A publishing, 2012. p121. ISBN 978 1 851776740
Collection
Accession number
C.98-1985

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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