8/2013

Collection

Ceramics

Brief description

A glazed earthenware bowl, decorated with the 'Homemaker' pattern designed by Enid Seeney in 1957, manufactured by Ridgway Potteries in Staffordshire between 1958 and 1967.

Title

Homemaker
Metro

Object name

bowl

Object number

8/2013

Production person

Seeney, Enid (designer)
Arnold, Tom (designer)

Production organisation

Ridgway Potteries Ltd (manufacturer)
Woolworths (retailer)

Production date

1957 (designed)
1967 (manufactured)

Production place

Staffordshire (manufactured)

Period

Twentieth century (1900-1999)

Material

earthenware

Technique

fired
glazed
transfer printed

Physical description

Shallow bowl transfer-printed with the 'Homemaker' pattern in black on a white ground. The pattern has intersecting black lines crossing the surface interspersed with eight irregularly shaped white panels, each of which contains an image of a 1950s household object. In the central panel there is a boomerang-shaped table, and to the right clockwise the following objects: a plate, small serving spoon and knife, a plant pot, a two-seater sofa, a salt mill, bottle opener and corkscrew, a lamp with an eye and bone design on the shade, and a large serving knife and fork.

The reverse bears the 'Homemaker' stamp; this is the word ‘Homemaker’, with an image of pot plant above and below images of a knife and fork, a corkscrew and a pepper grinder, around this is the text ‘Ridgeway Potteries Ltd / Made in Staffordshire England / All colours guaranteed / 1 Underglaze 67 / and detergent proof’.

There is a label stuck in the reverse of the bowl, with its previous museum number written in pencil.

Content object

coffee table
sofa
floor lamp
knife
fork
plant pot
salt mill
corkscrew
bottle opener

Dimensions

Diameter: 18.3cm
Height: 3.3cm

Website keywords

serving food
furniture
electric lighting