Dinner plate, hand-painted earthenware, 'Blue Daisy', designed by Suzanne Katkhuda, England, 1988.

Dinner plate of red earthenware, the upper surface covered with a cream slip and decorated with a handpainted design of daisies and foliage in blue, yellow, green and black. The plate, which has a footring, is glazed on both sides with a clear glaze.

According to Suzanne Katkhuda, the plate was made on a jigger. When leather hard, slip was applying on a banding wheel. It was then biscuit fired to 1020 degrees C, after which it was painted and glazed and fired again to 1120 degrees C, with a 10 minute soak to avoid crazing.

Given by Suzanne Katkhuda

Tableware in the Blue Daisy pattern was first produced by Katkhuda at the Stable Yard, Holdenby. It was designed in 1988 and launched at the NEC, Birmingham, in February 1989. The earliest plates were produced without footrings. This plate, which has a footring, was probably made slightly later at Brixworth, near Northampton.

Holdenby Designs was established by Suzanne Katkhuda and Jim Powell in 1987 to manufacture and sell Katkhuda's designs. The company was first based in the stable yard of Holdenby House, a stately home in Northamptonshire. These premises were rapidly outgrown, and at the end of 1991 the company moved to the nearby village of Brixworth. In 1993, further premises were acquired in Parsonage Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, where white earthenware was produced.

C.43-2011