Terms and conditions of use
Covered casserole with liner
(c. 1790)
- Medium
- stoneware (caneware)
- Measurements
- (a-c) 13.6 × 22.6 × 16.4 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
- Inscription
- (a) impressed (inverted) in base u.l.: WEDGWOOD / O
impressed in base u.l.: BBY - Accession Number
- 2024.393.a-c
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024 - Gallery location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This dish and the one below are made from a ceramic body called ‘caneware’ developed by Wedgwood in the 1790s in order to imitate pastry. Such dishes do not appear in Wedgwood’s invoices until 1795, but the impetus is thought to have come earlier from founder Josiah Wedgwood’s friend Richard Lovell Edgworth, who requested ‘oval baking dishes in the form of raised paste pies … made of cane-coloured ware’. Such dishes were extremely popular in the 1790s due to flour shortages. The pie dish has an internal glazed liner, which would have contained the casserole that was baked in the oven. The outer dish and cover are decorated in reliefs of grapevine swags with game-bird trophies and a rabbit forming the knop of the cover.
