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| Keywords: Wedgwood - Plate Showing Imps on a Bridge and Tree House - Walters 482754.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Wedgwood <br/> The Wedgwood factory gave Susannah Margaretta Daisy Makeig-Jones 1881-1945 her own design studio in 1915 Drawing on her early love of fairy stories she introduced an imaginative line of decorative wares that remained popular throughout the 1920s This particular design was introduced in 1924 Engravers transferred Makeig-Jones's designs to copper plates for printing onto paper sheets known as pottery tissues While the ink was still wet on the pottery tissues the images were rubbed onto the ceramic surfaces Women painters then applied the colors to these designs on the ceramics a process that necessitated several firings and then added the colorful glazes The gold details were added last between 1924 1930 lusterware cm 33 02 diam approx accession number 48 2754 2659 Lev Kaplan New York Mrs Arthur J Gutman Baltimore Walters Art Museum Gift of Mrs Arthur J Gutman 2002 place of origin Staffordshire England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Collections of the Walters Art Museum Wedgwood and Bentley Lustreware Treehouses Art of England | ||||
