Clare Leighton and Wedgwood
“Suggaring” 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
1998.509.3
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 "SUGARING/Before the ice and snow have departed the Vermont/ farmer taps his sugar maple trees for the flowing/sweet sap as it rises from its winter retreat./Many gallons of sap are needed for crystallization into one/pound of maple sugar since the days when the first/rugged New Englander tasted this delectable harvest./NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES/from Wood engravings by/CLARE LEIGHTON"
Markings: Marked on reverse of plate "WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON"; in script "Clare Leighton"
