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Subiaco Museum > Records

BOWL: WEMBLEY WARE, PURPLE, ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL

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Wembley Ware

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Wembley Ware Collection

Overview

From a collection of eight pieces of crested china, made in Subiaco by Australian Fine China, formerly Bristile.
Small mauve bowl, Royal Perth Hospital crest.
Base: Trade mark - black and yellow shield, intertwined and & B, held by standing black swans. The mark overlies an earlier, more common mark of Wembley Quality Ware, entwined B&WB, Crown above.

Historical information

The first pottery on the Subiaco site was Calyx Pottery, 1921 - 1941, followed by Bristile. The company was re-named Australian Fine China in 1992 and will move from Subiaco to Canning Vale in 2006.
Owned by Mary Alice Beard owner occupier of house at 6 Union Street Subiaco. House purchased by Mrs Beard c1960

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2005.76.7

Item type

Inscriptions and markings

Wembley Ware

Keywords

Brisbane & Wunderlich

Statement of significance

Historical significance, made in Subiaco, industrial history, history of institutional china

Subiaco Museum

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