Ice cooler
Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
1795
Materials
Creamware
Measurements
203 mm (Height); 610 mm (Diameter)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 810127.1.3
Summary
Ice pail, creamware, bucket shaped body on a spreading foot, two curved ledge handles, from a part dinner service, Wedgwood & Co, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, 1795; decorated in brown enamel and gilt with an oak leaf border beneath rim, simple gilt bands to rim, above and below the border, to the foot and ledge handles, brown enamel and gilt detail to moulding below handles.
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 it…’
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside foot: WEDGWOOD / 3 (impressed, inside foot)
Makers and roles
Wedgwood, manufacturer
References
Ferguson 2013