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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Moorland

Tea Plate
ca 1960 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

White earthenware tea plate, rimless. Decorated with underglaze printed pattern in black, floral spray against an overall ground of “ticks”, and hand-coloured with green and yellow touches.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMoorland (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with underglaze printed decoration
Brief description
'Moorland' pattern tea plate, earthenware with underglaze printed decoration, manufactured by James Broadhurst & Sons Ltd., England, ca. 1960.
Physical description
White earthenware tea plate, rimless. Decorated with underglaze printed pattern in black, floral spray against an overall ground of “ticks”, and hand-coloured with green and yellow touches.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 16.5cm
  • Height: 1.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
‘Broadhurst / England / Hand painted / Fast Colour / Moorland’ (Printed in black)
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.
Collection
Accession number
C.144-1992

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Record createdNovember 20, 2008
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