Description:
English creamware creamware stand with a band of open arches around the rim and decorated with a basketwork pattern in the well. which came with "twig" fruit basket (HD 1663.1) owned by the Hawks family of Wapping, a village just south of Deerfield, and acquired from Julia D. Snow and sold to Henry Flynt in 1950. The two pieces appear to be made by different creamware manufacturers; the stand (unmarked) is made of a lighter creamware than the basket, and has gadrooned bands on each side of the arches rather than the rope twist border around the well of the basket (marked "T.P. & Co. / FERRYBRIDGE"). However, they have probably been together for many years. This basket and stand form played an important role on the dining table as a centerpiece filled with fruit to complement the final course. The basket's woven appearance (made of strips of clay woven together by hand to form the open basket shape) capitalized on the Enlightenment fascination with the out-of-doors and the imitation of natural materials. The same form of twig basket was included in the 'Frog' Service, a 952-piece creamware dinner and dessert service made by Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) for the Empress Catherine of Russia about 1773 or 1774. The base of the stand has two red-outlined labels with ink inscriptions: "Hawks / Family / Wapping - Mass." and "820" (inventory number used by Miss Snow's mother).
Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+1663.2 |
