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On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it

Plate
fourth quarter 1917 - first quarter 1918 (made)
Artist/Maker
Grimwades (maker)
Bairnsfather, Bruce (designer)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent (made)

Circular plaque, with wide buff coloured rim, gold edged, the centre decorated with a transfer print in brown of the Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, 'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it'.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Caricatures & Cartoons
War
Object type
Plate
Titles
  • If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it (popular title)
  • Old Bill (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, gold, transfer print.
Brief description
Circular plate or plaque, decorated with a transfer print in brown of the Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, 'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it', made by Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent, 1917-1918.
Physical description
Circular plaque, with wide buff coloured rim, gold edged, the centre decorated with a transfer print in brown of the Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, 'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it'.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 17cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Made by the girls of Staffordshire during the winter of 1917/18 when the "Boys" were in the Trenches Fighting for Liberty and Civilisation' (Maker's identification; printed in black surrounded by a green cartouche; on back; printed; ink)
  • 'Grimwades / Stoke-on-Trent' (Maker's identification; on back; printed; ink)
  • Image of a globe (Maker's identification; printed; ink)
  • '4' indistinct (on back; painted; paint)
  • 'G Hawkins 1964 Gift M.F' (on paper label on back; handwritten)
Credit line
Given by Jennifer Hawkins Opie in memory of her father, George W. Hawkins.
Subjects depicted
Soldiers
Trenches
World War I
Bibliographic reference
Ceramics and Glass Collection Object Information File
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.64-2002

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Record createdDecember 10, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71755/if-you-knows-of-a-plate-bairnsfather-bruce/
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