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New England Industries - Grist Milling - 1952
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New England Industries - Grist Milling
© Wedgwood Museum
In 1952 Clare Leighton was asked by the Wedgwood firm to design twelve plates depicting “New England Industries” for the American market. Leighton created her designs as wood engravings which were then reproduced on the Queen's ware body. This piece entitled Grist Milling shows the farmer taking grain, or 'grist' to the mill. A full description of the process is given on the back of the plate.
In 1952 Clare Leighton was asked by the Wedgwood firm to design twelve plates depicting “New England Industries” for the American market. Leighton created her designs as wood engravings which were then reproduced on the Queen's ware body. This piece entitled Grist Milling shows the farmer taking grain, or 'grist' to the mill. A full description of the process is given on the back of the plate.
- Type of object: Dinner ware/plate
- Mark: WEDGWOOD 7R52 [Impressed] GRIST MILLING Much of the wealth and industry of New England was based on water power. Flour for the famous Rhode Island Johnny Cake was so ground until electricity superseded the picturesque water mill. NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES from Wood engravings by CLARE LEIGHTON WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON [printed in black] clare leighton [signed]
- Year first produced: 1952
- Body: Queen's ware, cream-coloured earthenware
- Glaze: White
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Transfer-printed
- Accession number: 9153
- Dimensions: 267 mm (diameter), 21 mm (depth)
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Clare Veronica Hope Leighton
Designer
Clare Veronica Hope Leighton - Designer
Artist and wood engraver, who was born in London on 12 April 1898, and died in Connecticut on 3 November 1989. She left England in 1939 and became an American citizen six years later. She is best remembered as a skilled wood-engraver and an artist who illustrated some fifty books, exhibiting a perfect appreciation of the nature of the characters within them. She trained at the Brighton School of Art, and then at the Slade School, and was taught to engrave (whilst attending the Central School of Art & Design) by Noel Rooke. She became a member of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1928. In later years she also produced designs for stained glass, and thirty three windows in St. Paul’s Cathedral, Worcester, Massachusetts, are evidence of her skills in this field.
