Salad Dish
ca. 1800 (made)
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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
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| 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'. |
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| 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'. |
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| Accession number | C.49-2004 |
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| Record created | August 16, 2004 |
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