FIGURINE: WEMBLEY WARE FOOTBALLER, SOUTH FREMANTLE
c. 1950Small hand painted china Wembley Ware figure of Australian Rules player holding football, running, left foot forward. Wearing colours of South Fremantle Football Team - red and white guernsey and striped long socks, white shorts, black boots, laced. Player has black hair. Glazed. J. Todd 10 - written in pale grey on back of guernsey. Base of ornament glazed green, tuft of green grass behind back foot.
Base: White clay base with small firing hole.
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Wembley Ware
Wembley Ware was a line of fine china produced by the Bristile company at the their factory in the Subiaco industrial area from 1946 to 1961. Its many different decorative pieces, also known as Fancy Ware or Lustre Ware were notable for their originality and their lustrous, sometimes opalescent glazes. This piece is part of a collection donated by Mr. Ossie (G O) Edwards.
Historical significance: sporting history, industrial history
Other items by Wembley Ware
- SOUP COUPE: BRISTILE, MAUVE
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WEAR, YELLOW
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, YELLOW
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, TAN FERN PATTERN
- SAUCER: WEMBLEY WARE, MAUVE
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, BLUE ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, WILDFLOWER PATTERN
- SAUCER: WEMBLEY WARE, BLUE FERN PATTERN
- SAUCER: WEMBLEY WARE, MAUVE
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, GREEN
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, BLUE
- PLATE: WEMBLEY WARE, TAN WITH FERN PATTERN
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- VASE: WEMBLEY WARE, FAN
- CAMERA: POLAROID PATHFINDER, CASE AND ACCESSORIES
- BROOCH: CROWN SHAPED
- TOOL: SPIRIT LEVEL - SMALL
- ASHTRAY: WEMBLEY WARE, ABORIGINAL FIGURE
- BADGE: ANZAC DAY 25TH APRIL 2006
- ASHTRAY: WEMBLEY WARE, SEAGULL DESIGN
- ASHTRAY: WEMBLEY WARE, KANGAROO DESIGN
- VASE: WEMBLEY WARE, SHELL WITH OPALESCENT GLAZE
- LAMP BASE: WEMBLEY WARE, DHUFISH LAMP BASE
- DRESS AND JACKET: COCKTAIL, RED AND BLACK
- BADGE: COUNCILLOR FREDERICK WALLY FLOOD