Game Pie Dish
Object NameGame Dish with Cover and Liner/ fondue dish?
Manufacturer
Wedgwood
(English (Stoke-on-Trent, England), founded 1759)
Datec. 1869
OriginGreat Britain
MediumCaneware
DimensionsA: 3 × 7 in. (7.6 × 17.8 cm)
B: 2 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (6.4 × 16.2 cm)
C: 6 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (15.9 × 11.4 cm)
ClassificationsDecorative Arts, Ceramics
Credit LineGift of Ann and Henry Brunnier. In the Ann and Henry Brunnier Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object number2.8.112abc
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureEnglish
Label TextThe slow evolution of caneware from the early tan-colored coarse stoneware was the result of many Staffordshire potters' experimentation and improvements. However, history credits Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) for caneware's ultimate refinement. The introduction of Cornish Stone to the local clay mixture, resulted in a fine- grained cream- to buff- colored body. When left unglazed, caneware bore a striking resemblance to pastry, a characteristic which led to its curious notoriety at the turn of the eighteenth century.
During the French wars with Napoleon from 1793 to 1815, the English suffered from meager grain harvests, plummeting grain prices and rising inflation. These combined conditions resulted in a shortage of flour and, of course, all things made from flour, such as pastry. In the English menu, pastry was a primary component, particularly for the common game meat pies. Typical ingredients might include hare, pheasant, quail, veal, pork and any other available game. The pie ordinarily would be topped with a pastry crust, as well as pastry ornaments. Because of its unique pasty- like color, caneware was Wedgwood's answer to England's pastry shortage. Game pie dishes were made to mimic the crusts of real pies, complete with molded figures of game animals and fruit clusters. This game pie dish boasts such ornamentation, including a final fashioned in the likeness of a game hare.
MarkingsLiner (c) has white sticker:"Cane Wedgwood 1815,Faude 1964, Game pie dish NOS pie crust edge."
I.D. Marks: Impressed Wedgwood/8.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
