Dinner plate with Harlem Toile basketball vignette
date: label: Date
content: 2022
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Enoch Wedgwood Ltd, English, founded 1860
label: Designed by
content: Sheila Bridges, American, born 1964
label: Distributed by
content: Fiskars Living US, LLC, American, founded 2009
notes: label: Description
content: A large, white, bone china dinner plate from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the basketball vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. The dinner plate is part of a four-piece place setting set that also consists of a large soup bowl with horses (2022.75.1.2), a smaller bowl with picnic scene (2022.75.1.3), and a lavender accent plate with jump rope scene (2022.75.1.4).
label: Description
content: This is a large, round white plate with a vignette of three young men playing basketball set along the plate’s proper right side. 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 grey-toned design is the reddish-brown basketball and the yellow of one of the player's shirts. The plate has a black rim.
label: Description
content: The underside of the plate features a backstamp vignette of the young man in the yellow shirt from the basketball scene dancing with the girl in the yellow dress and green sweater from the jump rope scene. There is a boombox sitting on the ground next to the man. At center is [WEDGWOOD / x / SHEILA BRIDGES].
place: label: Place made
content: Indonesia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Basketball
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Play
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Wedgwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.75.1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: plates (dishes)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sheila Bridges, Wedgwood © Fiskars Group
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: bone china
label: Dimensions
content: Diameter: 11 × 7/8 in. (28 × 2.3 cm)