Blue accent plate with Harlem Toile basketball vignette
- On View
- Cultural Expressions Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Cultural Expressions
- Manufactured by
- Enoch Wedgwood Ltd, English, founded 1860
- Designed by
- Bridges, Sheila, American, born 1964
- Distributed by
- Fiskars Living US, LLC, American, founded 2009
- Date
- 2022
- Medium
- bone china
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3/4 × 8 × 8 in. (1.9 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)
- Description
- A blue bone china accent plate from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the basketball vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design.
- On the face of the small, round blue plate is a scene of three young men playing basketball. The men wear 18th century clothing and play beneath a tree with the basket suspended from a limb by ribbon. A balustrade is visible in the background behind them. The only color in the otherwise black, white and grey design is the reddish-brown basketball and the yellow of one of the player's shirts. The men and the tree appear with a white background while black and grey lines of the rest of the design appear against the blue background of the plate. The plate has a black rim. The underside of the plate is white with a backstamp design of the reddish-brown basketball dropping from the basket suspended from a tree limb. There is printed black text in the center that reads [WEDGWOOD / X / SHEILA BRIDGES / Bone China / Dishwasher Safe].
- Collection title
- Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges Collection
- Classification
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Type
- plates (dishes)
- Topic
- Basketball
- Cooking and dining
- Design
- Play
- Stereotypes
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Wedgwood
- Object number
- 2022.75.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Sheila Bridges, Wedgwood © Fiskars Group
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.