Vogue Sunray cake plate
Factory:
Shelley Pottery Ltd
Designer:
Slater, Eric
Bone china, transfer printed in fawn and painted over-glaze in yellow and black enamels.
Large bone-china plate in ‘Vogue’ shape. The sides square, but extended into a triangle on two opposite sides; the corners scalloped; the sides slope upwards from a circular centre. Decorated with ‘Sunray’ pattern, a stylised Art Deco design of black sun with yellow surrounding glow and fawn rays, the sun set against one of the corners and the rays extending to the middle of the plate. The side triangles are outlined in yellow and filled with a fawn pattern. Two thin circles of black and yellow sit halfway between centre and rim.
History note: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a contribution from the Decorative Arts Society Purchase Fund
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Length: 24.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2018-01-29)
20th Century, first half#
1930
CE
-
Circa
1933
CE
Part of a coffee service, made by Shelley Pottery, Staffordshire. Joseph Shelley joined Wileman & Co. at the Foley Works, Fenton, in 1872. Under his son Percy, the trade name ‘Shelley’ was used from c.1910. Incorporated as Shelley Potteries Ltd in 1929, the business continued to produce bone china useful and decorative wares until 1966, when it was taken over by Allied English Potteries.
The set comprises coffee pot with lid, sugar bowl, cream jug, two cups with saucers, two side plates and one cake plate. Vogue shape was designed by Eric Slater, Shelley’s Art Director, and produced from 1930 until around 1933, with many different patterns; ‘Sunray’ is pattern number 11742. The factory mark was in use from 1925-45.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
glaze
Parts
Accession number: C.4.8-2018
Primary reference Number: 223109
Entry form number: 1348
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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