DINNER PLATE TOODYAY SHIRE COUNCIL

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Overview

Dinner plate bearing Toodyay Shire Council & shield motif; left facing and sheaf of wheat (black). On back, Bristile logo.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2009.5

Item type

Objects

Plates

Material

Ceramics

Inscriptions and markings

Southern Cross and stylised B, Bristile Made in Australia, 4/85

Contextual Information

'Wembley Ware' was produced by a Western Australian company, Brisbane and Wunderlich. During the 1950s, Brisbane and Wunderlich of Subiaco, Western Australia, were Australia's largest commercial producers of ceramics. The branding later became known as Bristile' or 'B&W'. One of their most successful ranges was Wembley Ware, produced between 1946 and 1961. High taxes on decorative ceramics at the time meant that the majority of Wembley Ware items were designed as useful household crockery but with outlandish and highly stylized designs that superseded their primary function. The company changed ownership a number of times over the years and its primary function became providing vitrified crockery to the hospitality industry and military.

Statement of significance

The Toodyay Road Board and Toodyay Shire Council crockery is significant for:
1.Their association with the Toodyay Road Board and Toodyay Shire Council and the development of civic organisations in the town of Toodyay
2.Their representation of the changing symbol or logo of the Toodyay road Board/Shire of Toodyay, demonstrating how the Council wished to be represented publicly and reflecti9ng the values of the town's people.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

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