LID, SERVING DISH - RAYNAUD & CO LIMOGES
c. 1900 - 1925Oval shaped earthenware lid. Background glaze is white. The edge is decorated with blue coloured glaze and gold coloured glaze. There is a handle on the top which is decorated with gold coloured glaze. There is a small chip on the edge of the lid. Raised rim on inside of lid that fits inside dish.
Serving dish manufactured by Raynaud & Co in Limoges, France. The bowl was given to Mrs Lois Turner in the 1970s by a friend who lived in Kelmscott. Lois most likely collected the dish as a representative piece of 'old ceramic' to display in the museum and because it was made by a well known manufacturer.
Raynaud & Co was established in 1925 and continues to operate today. The company quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality porcelain with award winning patterns.
Lois's father, William Tidbury Mills came to Western Australia in the 1890s to try his luck on the recently discovered Goldfields. In c1905 William returned to South Australia and married Victoria Maria Mason. The newly married couple then returned to Western Australia and settled in Armadale where they started their family. Their first child, George Hartly was born in Armadale in 1906. Lois Adelaide Turner was delivered by local midwife Mrs Bodicoat in 1908 at the family property on the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Gull Street. Lois would have spent her first few years of schooling attending the Armadale State School. While in Armadale the family had four other children, Avon William in 1909, Hartly Mason in 1911, Sydney Eric in 1913 and Victor Glenn in 1914
In 1915 the Mills family moved to Brookton. That same year Hilda Victoria was born and in 1918 Fred Mason was born. The family lived on a farm which they called 'Masonville' to the east of the Brookton
In 1932 Lois married Sidney John Turner a local farmer and lived in the district for the next thirty years. In 1961 Sidney passed away and Lois moved back to Armadale. Lois would later join the Armadale Kelmscott Historical Society. In 1975 as the AKHS prepared to open History House Lois donated a large number of items from her family.
Lois passed away in Armadale in 1988.
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This object is part of a collection with provenance that represents the type of items that were used by individuals and families in their daily life. These objects can range from items used every day through to special objects that were treasured and brought out for special occasions. This collection also represents the type of objects that were once commonly used in the home and over time and have either gone out of fashion or evolved in design, material or into a different type of object that does a similar function.
City of Armadale - History House
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