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Side plate: C.16-2020

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Maker(s)

Designer: Cooper, Susie
Decorator: Susie Cooper Pottery
Maker: Wood & Sons Ltd

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Description

Earthenware, moulded, aeropgraphed on-glaze with smoke blue slip, decorated with sgraffito and painted in brown and black.

Circular earthenware tea/side plate with gently convex sides. Upper surface thinly coated in smoke blue slip, leaving a band of white around the rim. Sgraffito quatrefoil decoration, with hollow dots between the leaves, finished with a feathered wishbone shape in brown and four brown dots. Underside slightly indented and glazed. Unmarked.

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

Measurements and weight

Height: 2 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2020-04-27) by Barker, Timothy

Dating

20th Century, Mid
Production date: circa AD 1947

Note

This design was displayed on the trade stand at the British Industries Fair 1947.

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulded
Painted
Aerographed
Sgraffito
Glazed

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.16-2020
Primary reference Number: 279199
Entry form number: 511

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 16 December 2020 Updated: Monday 4 August 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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