Trinket dish
Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1980 - circa 1990
Materials
Ceramic and cardboard
Measurements
Dish – 102 mm (length); 102 mm (width), Box -122 mm (length); 122 mm (width); 24 mm (height)
Place of origin
Barlaston
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662996
Summary
A ‘Wedgewood’ blue Jasperware trinket dish and original box. The Wedgwood blue trinket dish is shaped as a square with the corners cut off. Decorated with a white bas-relief image of Peter Rabbit squeezing under a garden fence in the centre and white bas-relief rabbits around the sloping outer edge of the tray. Also a flat square cardboard box with separate lid printed in light purple, bearing the name 'Wedgwood' and a light purple paper seal bearing the words 'PETER RABBIT COPYRIGHT FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. BEATRIX POTTER CREATIONS'. A piece of packing paper inside is decorated with a pattern of the name ‘WEDGWOOD’. Total number of items is 4.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of base at top: underneath copyright symbol: F. WARNE AND CO/ PETER RABBIT TM Underside of base at bottom: WEDGWOOD/ MADE IN/ ENGLAND
Makers and roles
Wedgwood, maker