On display
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Sugar Bowl

1926 (made)
Artist/Maker
Shelley Potteries (maker)
Attwell, Mabel Lucie (designer)
Place of origin
Longton (made)

Sugar bowl of stoneware. Form of a domed toadstool. The top, around the circular aperture in the centre, is decorated with orange coloured spots. The base has green painted around it and the name of Mabel Lucie Attwell is on the side.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Sugar bowl
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, painted
Stoneware
Painted
Brief description
Sugar bowl of stoneware, designed by Mabell Lucie Attwell, made by Shelley Potteries Ltd., Longton, 1926
Physical description
Sugar bowl of stoneware. Form of a domed toadstool. The top, around the circular aperture in the centre, is decorated with orange coloured spots. The base has green painted around it and the name of Mabel Lucie Attwell is on the side.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.5cm
  • Diameter: 10.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Mabel Lucie Attwell' (Painted on the side)
  • 'Shelley' [within an elongated shield] / 'England' (On the base)
  • 'Rd.724421' (On the base)
Gallery label
Tea Service
Designed by Mabell Lucie Attwell, made by Shelley Potteries Ltd., Longton, Staffordshire; 1926
Stoneware

Circ. 158&A, 159, 160-1974
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.159-1974

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Record createdMay 8, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O154299/sugar-bowl-attwell-mabel-lucie/
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