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Titles
Partial salad set
Maker(s)
Designer:
Cooper, Susie
Decorator:
Susie Cooper Pottery
Maker:
Wood & Sons Ltd
Entities
Categories
Description
Cream earthenware, handpainted underglaze in red-brown and dark green.
Cream earthenware, handpainted underglaze in red-brown and dark green.
Cream earthenware serving plate, side plate and oil bottle and stopper, from a salad set in 'Scrolls and Stars' pattern.
Serving plate (A): Circular with central indentation. Hand-painted with six green and red-brown scroll motifs, around another at centre; interspaced with small red-brown dots and stars; around the rim a green toothed band. Underside slightly indented to provide foot-rim; glazed.
Side plate (B): Circular with central indentation. Hand-painted with green and red-brown scroll motif surrounded by eight small pale brown dots and stars; around the rim a green toothed band. Underside slightly indented to provide foot-rim; glazed.
Oil bottle (C): Elongated bulbous body with lip to narrow neck and long straight loop handle. Hand-painted with four green and red-brown scroll motifs; a scroll-like panel outlined in red-brown with ‘Oil’ in green; several small red-brown dots around and down the handle; and around the rim, a green toothed band. Underside slightly indented to provide foot-rim; glazed. Stopper (D) with cork around lower side and decorated with red-brown star on top.
Notes
History note: Formerly in the collection of Susie Cooper; bequeathed to her son, Timothy Barker, who gave it to the Museum.
Legal notes
Given by Timothy Barker, son of Susie Cooper and Cecil Barker
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2020-04-27)
by
Barker, Timothy
Dating
Production date:
circa
AD 1939
Note
Pieces from a salad set in ‘Scrolls & Stars’ pattern, no. 1828, listed in 1940. Salad bowls and oil and vinegar bottles were manufactured and other pieces supplied to customers requirements.
Components of the work
Stopper
composed of
Cork
Side Plate
Diameter 15 cm
Height 1.5 cm
Serving Plate
Diameter 30.5 cm
Height 3.4 cm
Oil Bottle
Diameter 9 cm
Height 18.5 cm
Decoration
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulded
Glazed
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: potter's name appears as signature with a diagonal stroke below at the end
- Text: Susie Cooper / CROWN WORKS / BURSLEM / ENGLAND
- Location: Underside of base of all three pieces
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Maker's mark
- Text: 53c/ 21
- Location: Underside of base of serving plate
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Pattern number
- Text: 339 / 21
- Location: Underside of base of side plate
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Pattern number
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.13A-D-2020
Primary reference Number: 279158
Entry form number: 511
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 16 December 2020
Updated: Tuesday 1 February 2022
Last processed: Friday 16 February 2024
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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