Clare Leighton and Wedgwood
“Ice Cutting” Plate
1952
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Creamware, 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 7/8 in. (26.7 x 26.7 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Mrs. Alfred R.L. Dohme, and Gift of Elsie Clark Krug
Object Number
1998.509.6
Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Robin Reilly and George Savage, The Dictionary of Wedgewood, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Baron Publishing, 1980, p.214.
Inscribed: Marked on reverse of plate "ICE CUTTING/The sturdy New Englander exulted in the cold,/shapened his saw when the thermometer went below/zero and waited for the blue water to turn grey and/thicken into ice./Thus it remained until the arrival/of electricity, leaving the ice houses to fall into/disuse with a vanishing industry/NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES/from Wood engravings by/CLARE LEIGHTON"
Markings: Marked on reverse of plate "WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON"; in script "Clare Leighton"
