Cannes
Sweetmeat Stand
ca. 1954 (designed), ca. 1960 (made)
ca. 1954 (designed), ca. 1960 (made)
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Dish of earthenware. The body of the sweetmeat stand is white. It is moulded in a trefoil shape of three bowls joined at the centre with a metal handle. It is decorated with three small black transfer prints within the dishes of different harbour scenes infilled with enamel colours and the central section is aerographed in sky blue.
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with aerographed, transfer-printed and hand-coloured underglaze decoration |
| Brief description | Trefoil sweetmeat stand with harbour scene, 'Cannes' pattern, 'Fashion' shape, earthenware, made by W. R. Midwinter Ltd., Burslem, ca. 1960 |
| Physical description | Dish of earthenware. The body of the sweetmeat stand is white. It is moulded in a trefoil shape of three bowls joined at the centre with a metal handle. It is decorated with three small black transfer prints within the dishes of different harbour scenes infilled with enamel colours and the central section is aerographed in sky blue. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs E. Bonython |
| Production | Fashion shape designed by Roy Midwinter about 1953. Decoration designed 1954. |
| Bibliographic reference | Breward Christopher and Wood, Ghislaine. British design from 1948:Innovation in the Modern Age . London, V&A publishing, 2012. p121. ISBN 978 1 851776740 |
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| Accession number | C.98-1985 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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