Ice cooler
Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
1795
Materials
creamware
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Saltram, Devon
NT 810127.1
Summary
Three ice pails, creamware, bucket shaped body on a spreading foot, two curved ledge handles, from a part dinner service, Wedgwood & Co, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, 1795;
Full description
These ice pails are from a service ordered by John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon, later 1st Earl of Morley, from Wedgwood on 10 February 1795. They are described in the order as two 'Ice pails bro[wn];oak & gold £2.14.0'. They would have been used for chilling bottles of wine. The Rev. Thomas Talbot described a formal meal in the Dining Room at Saltram in 1811, ‘not in full gala as to plate’ (silver) but nevertheless ‘the table of an immense width with a plateau full of biscuit figures and vases with flowers etc. the whole length, leaving merely room for a dish at each end of a single row of dishes round with 4 ice vases with Champagne etc. at the corners of
Provenance
Acquired 1795 by John Parker (1772-1840) 2nd Lord Boringdon and by descent to Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley and formed part of the Endowment to NT following the transfer to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
Wedgwood, manufacturer
References
Ferguson 2013