Dish lid
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
50 x 107 mm; 159 mm (L)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 652548.13
Summary
A lid for a small porcelain dish (SUD/C/326q). Both are white with a gold-edged dark blue band around the top of the dish and edge of the lid. The dish and lid have handles with gold markings. Most of the gold has worn off the lid. Part of a thirty-two piece white ceramic dinner service with a blue edge. Some of the pieces also have a gold edge with the blue. Some of the pieces are made by W H Grindley and Co. Some of the pieces are made by Alfred Meakin. The dinner service also comprises of two meat plates (a and b), five ten inch plates with a gold and blue edge (c), five ten inch plates with a blue edge (d), four nine inch plates with a blue edge (f), five nine inch plates with a blue and gold edge (g), one round gravy boat saucer with decorated ends (h), one oval gravy boat saucer (i), one oval gravy boat with a matching lid (j and k) and one ladle with a blue edged bowl and a gold decorated handle (l).
Provenance
Gift to the National Trust by Mrs. Sue Butcher in 2001. The dinner service came from Mrs. Butcher's grandmother's farmhouse.