Sheraton Ivory Vegetable Dish with Lid

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c. 1920 - 1940

Subcollections

Overview

A Sheraton Ivory vegetable dish consisting of two parts;

Part A Square dish with floral detailing generally blue/brown (red) on white background. Handles on opposite corners of the dish

Part B Lid with floral pattern coloured generally blue/brown (red) on white background with knob as handle.

Historical information

W H Grindley was an English pottery company that made earthenware and ironstone tableware, including flow blue. The company was founded at the Newfield Pottery by Grindley and Alfred Meakin but the partnership ended in 1884 and Grindley continued alone and moved to the Woodland Pottery in 1891.

W H Grindley was taken over by Alfred Clough in 1960 and became known as Grindley of Stoke in 1978. The company bought Ceramix in 1980 and was itself bought by Federated Potteries in 1982 before being bought back by W H Grindley in 1988. The company went into receivership in 1991 and was taken over by Woodlands Pottery. Pattern books and records from 1880 to 1930 are in the Stoke-on-Trent City Archives.

The manufacturers W.H Grindley & Co Ltd, Woodland Pottery, Tunstall England.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2018.55a.b

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

21 cm

Height or length

28 cm

Weight

942 g

Inscriptions and markings

Stamped on base are the maker's marks with the wording

W.H.GRINDLEY &CO LTD
SHERATON
IVORY
ENGLAND
REG NO 723436

Also stamped on the base in red is
142

Contextual Information

Donated by Alice (Olive) Wilson who lived at 43 High Street, Busselton who owned a haberdashery and ladies apparel store in Queen Street.

The Wilson family home was sold to the State Government and incorporated into the Busselton Primary School grounds, where it became the site of the "OSLO Lunch" room. The area is now part of the Busselton Central carpark.

Keywords

Ceramic

Place made

Tunstall
Staffordshire
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1920 - 1940

Primary significance criteria

Social or spiritual significance

Related Objects

Parent records

CABINET 1.6.1 The Taylor Cabinet

Busselton Historical Society