Bowl with Harlem Toile picnic 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 white bone china bowl from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the picnic vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. The bowl is part of a four-piece place setting set that also consists of a white dinner plate with basketball vignette (2022.75.1.1), a large soup bowl with horses (2022.75.1.2), and a lavender accent plate with jump rope scene (2022.75.1.4).
label: Description
content: The small, white, round bowl depicts a picnic scene around the exterior sides and a rooster on the bottom of the bowl's interior. The picnic scene consists of a young man and woman in 18th century clothing seated on the ground under a tree. She is seated cross-legged and holds a fried chicken leg in both hands in front of her. There is a whole watermelon on the ground behind her. The man sits across from her, reaching for a plate of food on the ground in between them. The woman's purple dress and the man's red trousers are the only spots of color in the otherwise grey-toned design. The bowl's interior features a grey-toned rooster with a small slice of red watermelon on the ground in front of him. The bowl has a black rim. On the underside of the bowl is printed black text that reads [WEDGWOOD / X / SHEILA BRIDGES / Bone China / Dishwasher Safe].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Foodways
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
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: 2022.75.1.3
objectType: label: Type
content: bowls (vessels)
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: 6 5/16 × 2 9/16 in. (16 × 6.5 cm)