Please complete the form to email this item.

Tray - Luncheon tray
  • Luncheon tray
    Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, born 1812 - died 1852
  • Enlarge image

Luncheon tray

  • Object:

    Tray

  • Place of origin:

    Stoke-on-Trent, England (made)

  • Date:

    1859 (dated)
    ca. 1850 (designed)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, born 1812 - died 1852 (designer)
    Minton & Co. (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Earthenware with inlaid decoration

  • Museum number:

    7262-1861

  • Gallery location:

    World Ceramics, room 145, case 13, shelf 3

  • Download image

This luncheon tray was designed for Minton by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the leading designers of the Gothic revival in England. Pugin was very supportive of Minton's revival of the medieval technique of inlaid (or encaustic) tiles, which involved carving out sections of clay and filling the resulting grooves with different colourd slip, (liquid clay) to create a pattern. Such tiles could be used in the widespread restoration of Medieval churches and in Pugin's work on the Palace of Westminster. The inlaid technique was also employed on other wares, as with this tray.

Pugin created a number designs for Minton, including tiles and tableware. One of their most high profile collaborations was the Medieval Court at the 1851 Great Exhibition, for which Pugin designed majolica glazed tiles for the great stove exhibited there.

Physical description

Tray or plateau, buff earthenware with inlaid decoration in green, white, yellow, red and orange. Design of gothic style ornament spreading out from a central point, including crown motif.

Place of Origin

Stoke-on-Trent, England (made)

Date

1859 (dated)
ca. 1850 (designed)

Artist/maker

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, born 1812 - died 1852 (designer)
Minton & Co. (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Earthenware with inlaid decoration

Dimensions

Diameter: 46 cm

Descriptive line

Luncheon tray with inlaid decoration in the Gothic style. Designed by A.W.N. Pugin and made by Minton, dated 1859.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Atterbury, Paul. Ceramics. in Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright, eds. Pugin: A Gothic Passion.London: Yale & Victoria and Albert Museum, 1994
'Illustrated in the Minton shape and pattern books are a number of (...) items that carry Pugin's name. These include (...)a large luncheon tray made in a number of colours and finishes, including encaustic, and designed to be used both as a tray and mounted as a lazy susan (...).' pp151-2.
Wedgwood, Alexandra, A.W.N.Pugin and the Pugin Family: Catalogue of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985
7262-1861 object listed in appendix of objects designed by A.W.N.Pugin. p.323.

Production Note

Title given in Minton & Co records

Materials

Earthenware

Techniques

Inlaid

Categories

Ceramics

Collection code

CER

Download image
Qr_O172260
Ajax-loader