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Homemaker, coffee pot

Homemaker, coffee pot
designed (1956); manufactured (1957-1964)

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
(a-b) 17.9 × 19.7 × 11.3 cm (overall)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Inscription
(a) printed in black on base c: * RIDGWAY POTTERIES LTD * / (potted plant) / HOMEMAKER / (spoon) (knife) (pepper grinder) (corkscrew) / MADE IN STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND / ALL COLOURS GUARANTEED / UNDERGLAZE / AND DETERGENT PROOF

Accession Number
2017.567.a-b

Department
International Decorative Arts

Physical description
A coffee pot decorated in black and white. The lid is domed and black glazed and the body is decorated with vignettes of domestic furniture and objects, the background partially filled in with roughly drawn horizontal lines; the spout and handle are white-glazed.