9/2013

Collection

Ceramics

Brief description

A glazed earthenware plate, 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

plate

Object number

9/2013

Production person

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

Production organisation

Ridgway Potteries Ltd (manufacturer)
Woolworths (retailer)

Production date

1957 (designed)
1958 - 1970 (manufactured)

Production place

Staffordshire (manufactured)

Period

Twentieth century (1900-1999)

Material

earthenware

Technique

fired
glazed
transfer printed

Physical description

Plate with a diameter of 25 cm, transfer-printed with the Homemaker pattern in black on a white ground. The pattern has intersecting black lines crossing the surface interspersed with twelve 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 lamp, an armchair, a large serving knife and fork, a salt mill, bottle opener and corkscrew, an upholstered chair, a floor lamp with an eye and bone design on the shade, a sideboard, a plant pot and a two-seater sofa.

The reverse bears the 'Homemaker' backstamp; 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 / Underglaze / and detergent proof’.

There is a label stuck in the reverse of the plate, with its previous museum number written in pencil. A crack runs across to the centre of the plate from the left side.

Content object

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

Dimensions

Diameter: 25cm
Width: 2cm

Website keywords

serving food
furniture
electric lighting