{"id":478,"date":"2020-01-09T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/?page_id=478"},"modified":"2020-01-09T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T18:01:21","slug":"plates-and-spoons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/home\/part-four\/plates-and-spoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Plates and Spoons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The Royal Doulton Company produced several pieces based on Will Bradley\u2019s illustrations during the early 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century. The majority of these pieces, which comprised two series of plates, as well as vases and jugs, were based on artwork from Bradley\u2019s play \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d found in the August 1896 issue of\u00a0<em>Bradley: His Book<\/em>. It is unclear if Royal Doulton had Bradley\u2019s consent or compensated him in any way for the use of his designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProverbs: Nothing venture nothing have. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.\u201d D3391 series plate from Royal Doulton, circa 1911-1928.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProverbs: Happy is the wooing that\u2019s not long in the doing. Marry in haste repent at leisure.\u201d D3391 series plate from Royal Doulton, circa 1911-1928.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cEastern Figures\u201d tudor jug, \u201cMorrisian\u201d series from Royal Doulton, circa 1905.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIn 1897, Will Bradley designed and printed&nbsp;<em>The Colonial Book<\/em>&nbsp;for the Towle Manufacturing Company at his Wayside Press. It featured both a showcase of the silver company\u2019s Colonial pattern and an illustrated guide to the company\u2019s home, Newburyport, Massachusetts. The popular publication was reprinted several additional times by Wayside\u2019s successor, The University Press. The pattern displayed here, Georgian, was inspired by Bradley\u2019s oft-used flower basket motifs. Bradley did not produce the book for the Georgian pattern, but it is considered the second in the series that began with his tribute to the Colonial.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nTwo spoons and a knife in the Georgian pattern from Towle Mfg. Company, circa 1898.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] The Royal Doulton Company produced several pieces based on Will Bradley\u2019s illustrations during the early 20th\u00a0century. The majority of these pieces, which comprised two series of plates, as well as vases and jugs, were based on artwork from Bradley\u2019s play \u201cBeauty and the Beast,\u201d found in the August 1896 issue of\u00a0Bradley: His Book. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":463,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}