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
Metro
Object name
plate
Object number
9/2013
Production person
Seeney, Enid (designer)
Arnold, Tom (designer)
Arnold, Tom (designer)
Production organisation
Ridgway Potteries Ltd (manufacturer)
Woolworths (retailer)
Woolworths (retailer)
Production date
1957 (designed)
1958 - 1970 (manufactured)
1958 - 1970 (manufactured)
Production place
Staffordshire (manufactured)
Period
Twentieth century (1900-1999)
Material
earthenware
Technique
fired
glazed
transfer printed
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.
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
sofa
floor lamp
knife
fork
plant pot
salt mill
corkscrew
bottle opener
sideboard
armchair
chair
lamp
Dimensions
Diameter: 25cm
Width: 2cm
Width: 2cm
Website keywords
serving food
furniture
electric lighting
furniture
electric lighting