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Busselton Historical Society > Records

Milford Ware Bowl with Hand Painted Roses

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Ford & Sons

c. 1910

Subcollections

The Taylor Cabinet

Overview

Round footed bowl decorated with gold trim around the irregular top edge of bowl. The outside of bowl is decoratively impressed and features varied tones of olive green, gold outlines and transfer ware. There are four clusters of two pink and two white roses positioned evenly around the outside of the bowl. Inside the bowl is cream-coloured and decorated with four white roses with pink centres and olive green leaves evenly placed around inside of bowl. On the inside base of the bowl there are two white roses overlayed with two pink roses.

Historical information

Milford Ware was a range of ceramics made by Ford & Sons, Staffordshire , England. Ford and Sons used a number of trade names with the word ford in them (Crownford, Crownford Ware, Milford Ware, Oxford Ware, Sandford Ware) in the 1930's.They also identified the factory town of manufacture on the item with the towns initial,e.g B for Burslem, H for Hanley.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2018.3

Item type

Material

Width

16 cm

Depth

9 cm

Weight

857 g

Themes

Inscriptions and markings

On the base of the bowl appears the Milford ware makers mark with the lettering

F&S
B
ENGLAND
MILFORD WARE

On the base of the bowl is the design number A568

Contextual Information

The donor, Una Summerville, was a founding member of the Busselton Historical Museum

Keywords

Place made

Burslem
Staffordshire
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1910

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

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Parent records

CABINET 1.6.1 The Taylor Cabinet

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