SAUCER - STATE BRICK WORKS

c. 1951 - 1976
Overview

Cream glazed round saucer has black logo on top of saucer just below the rim. Logo has a belt around the outside with text on it. logo [STATE BRICK WORKS]. Inside the belt is a black swan facing left.
Makers mark printed on bottom of saucer having text in a circle with a crown above text. Inside text a stylised W over the top half of a B.

Historical information

This tea set was manufactured by HL Brisbane and Wunderlich at their Subiaco porcelain works under the business name Bristile China.
Between 1946 and 1961, the company produced a range of ‘Fancy Wear’ called Wembley Ware and became one of the most popular range of Australian produced ceramics and was sold all across the country and in New Zealand.
In the 1890s, the Armadale to Byford area was identified as having excellent clay and shale deposits for brick making and by the early 1900s had two private commercial brickworks operating at Cardup and Armadale. In 1913, the Labor Scaddan Government, who after winning government in 1911 implemented a program of state run enterprises, opened the State Brickworks in Byford and extended the Armadale line to the town so bricks could be easily transported from the site.
In November 1950, a second State Brickworks site was opened in Armadale between Southwestern Highway and the railway line and by 1952 it was producing enough bricks to build 80 homes a week. It was possibly around this time that the State Brickworks commissioned Bristile China to produce a crockery for its sites.
In 1961, both State Brickworks sites were sold to the construction company Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd, with the Byford site closed in 1964 and the Armadale site operating as a brickworks through to the early 2000s.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-AK1976.129
Width
147 mm
Height or length
25 mm
Depth
147 mm
Inscriptions and markings

makers mark [WEMBLEY / QUALITY WARE]

Place made
subiaco
Western Australia
Australia
Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.

Primary significance criteria
Historic significance
Comparative significance criteria
Object’s condition or completeness
Rare or representative
Well provenanced
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