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Plate Showing Imps on a Bridge and Tree House
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The Wedgwood factory gave Susannah Margaretta (Daisy) Makeig-Jones (1881-1945) her own design studio in 1915. Drawing on her early love of fairy stories, she introduced an imaginative line of decorative wares that remained popular throughout the 1920s. This particular design was introduced in 1924. Engravers transferred Makeig-Jones's designs to copper plates for printing onto paper sheets known as pottery tissues. While the ink was still wet on the pottery tissues, the images were rubbed onto the ceramic surfaces. Women painters then applied the colors to these designs on the ceramics, a process that necessitated several firings, and then added the colorful glazes. The gold details were added last.
Provenance
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Lev Kaplan, New York; Mrs. Arthur J. Gutman, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, Staffordshire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
13 in. (33.02 cm) (diam.) approx.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur J. Gutman, 2002
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2754