Vogue Sunray side plate: C.4.6-2018

Titles

Vogue Sunray side plate

Maker(s)

Factory: Shelley Pottery Ltd
Designer: Slater, Eric

Entities

• Plate

Categories

• Bone china

Description

Bone china, transfer printed in fawn and painted over-glaze in yellow and black enamels.

Small bone-china plate in ‘Vogue’ shape. The sides are square, the corners scalloped and the centre circular. Decorated with ‘Sunray’ pattern, a stylised Art Deco design of black sun with yellow surrounding glow and fawn rays, the sun placed against one of the corners and the rays extending past the middle of the plate. Black and yellow bands outline the junction between centre and rim.

Notes

History note: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a contribution from the Decorative Arts Society Purchase Fund

Legal notes

Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Fenton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2018-01-29)

Dating

20th Century, first half#
1930 CE - Circa 1933 CE

Note

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.