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New England Industries - Sugaring - 1952
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New England Industries - Sugaring
© 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 Sugaring shows farmers tipping buckets of maple sap into a vat for crystallisation. 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 Sugaring shows farmers tipping buckets of maple sap into a vat for crystallisation. A full description of the process is given on the back of the plate.
- Type of object: Dessert ware/plate
- Mark: WEDGWOOD 4E52 [Impressed] SUGARING Before the ice and snow have departed the Vermont farmer taps his sugar maple trees for the flowing sweet sap as it rises from the winter retreat. Many gallons of sap are needed for crystallization into one pound of maple sugar, but the fame of the sugar remains undiminished since the days when the first rugged New Englander tasted this delectable harvest 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: 9153b
- Dimensions: 268 mm (diameter), 22 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.
