'Seed Poppy' plate
Factory:
Wood, H. J.
Designer:
Rhead, Charlotte
Earthenware plate, tube-lined and painted with deep blue, purple, red, pink and green glazes.
Octagonal plate, the top covered with a stylised design on a deep blue ground: a central pink and red flower surrounded by green leaves, the flower filled with purple seeds which also proliferate amongst the leaves. The edge of the rim and the underside clear glazed.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe, 2018
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 2 cm
Width: 21.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
1920 CE - Circa 1940 CE
Charlotte Rhead (1885-1947) came from a family of potters who over several generations built a reputation for tube-lined and pâte-sur-pâte decoration. She trained at Fenton School of Art and worked at a succession of potteries as a decorator. She became particularly known for tube-lined designs and, later, innovative glazes. From 1912-1926 she worked for her father, Frederick, who was art director at Wood & Sons, and at their subsidiaries Bursley Ltd and the Ellgreave Pottery Co. Later she joined Burgess & Leigh, and then A.G.Richardson & Co., though may also have continued to designs for Wood/Bursley (see Bumpus, 2014). She returned to H J Wood in 1942, remaining there until she died.
Charlotte Rhead’s designs for H J Wood were marketed under the ‘Bursley Ware’ label. ‘Poppy Seed’ is recorded as pattern no. 28.
Decoration composed of glaze
Inscription present: in recrangular border
Inscription present: very faint
Accession number: C.64-2023
Primary reference Number: 227173
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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