Orange accent plate with Harlem Toile vanity 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: An orange bone china accent plate from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the vanity vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design.
label: Description
content: On the face of the small, round orange plate is a scene of three women in 18th century clothing performing their toilette. The women appear grouped together on a raised platform under a tree. A seated woman at the right holds a large, oval mirror for the seated woman at center to look into, her long hair loose around her head. The third woman stands behind her, helping to arrange her hair. Behind her is a vanity table with a smaller mirror and various accessories. The standing woman’s dress is blue and lavender roses appear in an urn on the opposite side of the platform, the only color amid an otherwise black, grey and white design. The women, the platform they appear on, the urn of roses and the tree all appear with a white background, while the black and grey lines of the rest of the design appear on the orange background of the plate. On the underside of the plate is a backstamp design of two blue high-heeled slipper shoes askew in the grass, along with two purple roses with green leaves and the tree limbs arching above. There is printed black text in the center that reads [WEDGWOOD / X / SHEILA BRIDGES / Bone China / Dishwasher Safe]. The plate has a black rim.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Beauty culture
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Play
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
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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
label: Exhibition
content: Cultural Expressions
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 050
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: 2022.75.11
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: H x W x D: 3/4 × 8 × 8 in. (1.9 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)