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Harlequinade

Plate
ca. 1955 (designed), ca. 1959 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Empire Porcelain Co. (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent (manufactured)

White earthenware plate, rimless. Decorated with underglaze hand-painted pattern of broad gingham-style stripes in green, interwoven with thin black lines.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Plate
TitleHarlequinade (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with underglaze hand-painted decoration
Earthenware
Hand-Painted
Underglazed
Brief description
'Harlequinade' pattern plate, earthenware with underglaze hand-painted decoration, manufactured by Empire Porcelain Co., England, ca. 1959.
Physical description
White earthenware plate, rimless. Decorated with underglaze hand-painted pattern of broad gingham-style stripes in green, interwoven with thin black lines.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19cm
  • Height: 2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘Harlequinade / Empire Porcelain Co. / Stoke-on-Trent’ (Printed)
  • 'England / 6-59' (Printed)
Object history
Nos. C.131 to 155-1992 form a group of ware selected from Susannah Walker’s own collection to show a variety of popular “contemporary” designs in mass-produced tableware. She had collected these from car-boot sales, charity and bric-a-brac shops etc, rarely paying more than a few pence for each.
Bibliographic reference
Walker, Susannah. Contemporary/Moderne: British Mass-produced Tableware of the 1950s. Thesis (M.A.) - V&A/RCA Course in the History of Design, 1990, fig. 45.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.137-1992

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Record createdNovember 20, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O172916/harlequinade-plate-empire-porcelain-co/
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