Artist: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd, factory; Date(s): 1954-03; Classification(s): earthenware, plate, throwing, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with lithographed prints underglaze and painted overglaze in yellow enamel; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2001-01-22, Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum [C.3-2001]
Description: Cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's Ware) decorated with lithographed prints underglaze and painted overglaze in yellow enamel. Circular with a narrow, slightly concave rim, curved sides, and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with a vignette of a woman holding a book while sitting in a deckchair on the left of a tree. A shopping basket on wheels stands on the right in the shadow of the tree. On the rim there are nineteen overlapping short lengths of black twisted ribbon and a broad yellow band on the inner edge of the rim.