Commemorative plate - Coronation of HM George VI and Queen Elizabeth - 1937
© Wedgwood Museum
Coronation pattern. Rim has stylised feather pattern, reversed from rich ruby red border and outlined in platinum, edge lines, overglaze. The design was revived for Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II 1953.
Coronation pattern.Rim has stylised feather pattern,reversed from rich ruby red border and outlined in platinum,edge lines,overglaze.The design was revived for the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1953
- Type of object: Dinner ware/plate
- Mark: Portland vase WEDGWOOD BONE CHINA MADE IN ENGLAND (Printed in green) A and WH2269 (Painted in brown)
- Year first produced: 1937
- Body: Bone china
- Glaze: Clear glaze
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Silk-screen printed
- Accession number: 10467
- Dimensions: 270 mm (diameter), 15 mm (height)
Related people
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Cecily Stella ‘Star’ Wedgwood
Designer
Cecily Stella ‘Star’ Wedgwood - Designer
Cecily Stella ‘Star’ Wedgwood was the daughter of Major Frank Wedgwood. She was a pupil of Alfred and Louise Powell who were invited to revive the methods and designs of hand-painting at Etruria. Star, as she was universally known, quickly rose to the position of a successful ceramic designer creating a number of patterns for Queen’s ware and the coloured bodied wares then in production. Her bone china designs tended to be bold patterns using ground colours and platinum. Some of Star Wedgwood’s work is marked with a painted five pointed star with the initials CW on either side.
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HM King George VI
HM King George VI
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947), the last King of Ireland (until 1949), and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
Glossary
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Bone china
Bone china
A porcelain made from clay and feldspathic rock with the addition of about 50 percent of calcined animal bone. Josiah Wedgwood II introduced bone china at the Wedgwood Etruria factory in 1812.
