China Butter Dish

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J & G Meakin Ltd. Eagle Pottery and Eastwood Works

c. 1912

Overview

Oval china butter dish with garden scenes at narrow end and floral scenes at the bottom. Also has a narrow line of blue around the top rim of the dish, if this was a butter dish it is possible that the lid is missing,

Historical information

In 1907 William Maidment bought 640 acres from Ted Lang of what had once been WJ Roberts "old Capel Farm" and renamed this property "Paringa" . Paringa had a weatherboard house with a cellar, fruit trees, a dairy herd and a small flock of sheep. Maidment bred horses for mounts for the Indian army.

J. & G. Meakin was an English pottery manufacturing company founded in 1851 and based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. In the 19th century, J. & G. Meakin was known for the vast quantities of cheap ironstone china it produced for the domestic English market and for export to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

The J&G Meakin "SOL" trademark was registered in 1912 and has many variations.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2019.162

Item type

Objects

Themes

Social History

Material

Ceramic Glaze

Width

17 cm

Height or length

22 cm

Depth

2 cm

Weight

292 g

Inscriptions and markings

Regf sol 391413, J&G Meakin/ England
J & G Meakin (Ltd) Eagle Pottery and Eastwood Works, Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries 1851 -
estimate of dish 1912

Contextual Information

This dish would have been brought to Australia by the Maidment family, who farmed at Capel.

If this was a butter dish it would have been used to serve/ store butter however if it was a pin dish, women would have used it to store pins and clips on their dressing table.

Place made

Hanley
Staffordshire
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1912

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

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CABINET 1.6.1 The Taylor Cabinet

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