'Scarab' pattern bread and butter plate
Production: Shelley Pottery Ltd
Bone china plate, moulded and decorated with ‘Scarab’ pattern
White bone-china plate, square in plan with flared straight sides rising from a square centre and two solid handles on opposite sides. Decorated with an Art Deco design around the rim, comprising stylised scarabs in blue, yellow and red in the middle of each side, interspersed with a band of black containing a graphic arrow-head motif; and with a stylised foliate design in black on the ‘handles’.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Richard Jordan in memory of Peter Douglas
Height: 2.7 cm
Width: 23.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2019-04-29) by Jordan, Richard
1920s
George V
1924
CE
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1926
CE
Part of a set comprising a cup, saucer and side plate trio and a bread and butter plate 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 was produced between 1924 and 1926. The backstamp was in use from 1913-26 and the shape, ‘Vincent’ from 1916 until the early 1940s. The pattern, ‘Scarab’, is quite rare; it celebrates Howard Carter’s recent discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (1922) and was introduced in 1924.
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, yellow, red, and black)
Inscription present: enclosed by an oblong shield-shaped line with ENGLAND below it in smaller letters
Accession number: C.12-2019
Primary reference Number: 227193
Entry Form number: 1384
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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