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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Salad Dish

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Low rectangular dish with in-curving sides, indented at the rounded corners. The interior border is painted in enamel colours with a repeating pattern of branches bearing leaves, tendrils and bunches of berries, banded on either side in brown enamel. The upper surface has stilt marks. The base bears the impressed mark 'WOOD & CALDWELL'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Creamware, formed in a mould, glazed and painted in enamel colours
Brief description
Salad dish, creamware painted in enamels, made by Wood & Caldwell, Staffordshire (Burslem), about 1800
Physical description
Low rectangular dish with in-curving sides, indented at the rounded corners. The interior border is painted in enamel colours with a repeating pattern of branches bearing leaves, tendrils and bunches of berries, banded on either side in brown enamel. The upper surface has stilt marks. The base bears the impressed mark 'WOOD & CALDWELL'.
Dimensions
  • Length: 27.6cm
  • Width: 21.6cm
  • Height: 3.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'WOOD & CALDWELL'. (On base, impressed mark)
Credit line
Given by Geoff Opie in memory of Mabel Opie
Object history
A slightly deeper version of this shape is shown in Wedgwood's printed creamware catalogue of about 1790, where it is described as a 'salad bowl'.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.49-2004

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Record createdAugust 16, 2004
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