IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82308 accession number: C.23-2002 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Creamware, printed underglaze in black, glazed, and painted with pale blue, royal blue, yellow, and pink enamels. Large, circular bowl with deep curved sides. The underside is flat and glazed, surrounded by a low foot-ring which is moulded to suggest two rings on the outside. In the middle, an oval view of Piccadilly Circus on Boat Race Night covers the base. The area is full of people, some swarming up the stairs of a bus, others on the roof of a car and atop a building. Signs advertise Guinness; Bovril; Schweppes; Bass; Dunlop and The Palladium theatre; a clock shows 11.30. The sky is dark; yellow light shines from the buildings; pale blue highlights the thronging crowd. There are four further oval vignettes on the outside of the bowl. One shows the race in progress: the light blue boat pulling ahead of the dark blue, boats on the riverbank, cheering spectators highlighted in pink. Two show spectators in a flag-bedecked boat beside a bridge, and in a steamship, with swans and reeds on the bank. The fourth is a smaller graphic emblem of a mermaid in a boat, under the yellow-rayed sun in a blue sky, surrounded by four sets of oars. The colours are used sparingly to highlight features of the images. object type: Creamware bowl printed underglaze in black and painted in two shades of blue, yellow, and pink enamels with an oval view of Piccadilly Circus on Boat Race Night in the middle, and, on the exterior, a mermaid, and three views of stages of the Boat Race. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2JT LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82308 PEOPLE ------------------- Ravilious, Tirzah mermaid SUBJECTS ------------------- rowing Boat Race boats yachts steam boat rowing boat swan river bridge Piccadilly Circus Thames London boats yachts steam boat rowing boat swan rowing river bridge Piccadilly Circus Thames London TECHNIQUES ---------- Thrown earthenware, printed in black underglaze and painted overglaze in pale blue, royal blue, yellow and pink enamels. throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: creamware category: Queen's ware DATING ------ creation date: 1938 - 1940 creation date earliest: 1938 creation date latest: 1940 culture: 20th Century, second quarter# culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd maker: Ravilious, Eric William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Eric Ravilious in Context CITATIONS -------- Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Eric Ravilious Memoir of an Artist Wedgwood Wedgwood in London, 225th Anniversary Exhibition 1759-1984 Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston Fitzwilliam Museum News, Number 21 English Furniture,Ceramics and Decorations including property from the Collections of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Mrs Douglas Auchincloss Antiques Trade Gazette British Pottery Spring Country House Sale inc Items from Saling Hall Wedgwood Ware Ravilious and Wedgwood: The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious Ravilious and Wedgwood Ravilious at the Fry: A guide to his works in The Fry Art Gallery ---