The Seasons Dishes
The Seasons Dishes
Two Electrotype copper, parcel gilt silver plated shields "The Seasons Dishes"
Elkington & Co. Circa 1890
59cm frame diameter
53cm dish diameter
Literature:
The Museum and the Factory, Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson 2018 pg 84-87.
The 1904 Elkington & Co Sale Catalogue describes the dishes:
"The centres of the two dishes which represent the year are occupied respectively by the flowers which characterise the first, and the harvest which is the chief feature of the latter half of the Earth's annual revolution
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Two Electrotype copper, parcel gilt silver plated shields "The Seasons Dishes"
Elkington & Co. Circa 1890
59cm frame diameter
53cm dish diameter
Literature:
The Museum and the Factory, Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson 2018 pg 84-87.
The 1904 Elkington & Co Sale Catalogue describes the dishes:
"The centres of the two dishes which represent the year are occupied respectively by the flowers which characterise the first, and the harvest which is the chief feature of the latter half of the Earth's annual revolution
round the Sun. In the outer boarder, which here forms the most conspicuous portion of the design, the several months are each represented by the appropriate sign of the zodiac. To treat these time-honoured symbols with originality, and at the same time with artistic spirit, in so limited a space, must have presented a problem of no ordinary difficulty; but it has been solved in the most graceful manner by the association of a female figure with each sign, and in this way the artist has succeeded in rendering a somewhat hackneyed theme with unequalled freshness and elegance."
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Dimensions
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