Domestic Object - China dish, Shelley, c1910

Significance

Yields information about the appearance through a drawing of Sturt St in the mid 1920's and yields information about the manufacture of china dishes with images in the bowl of the dish.

Physical description

White china dish, detailed curved and decorated edges with a transferred image of Sturt St from Grenville St early 1920's with an ESCo tram arriving at the Grenville St terminus and two other trams in the view. Looks west along Sturt St.



See Reg Item 4764 for another example of a similar dish made by the same manufacturer for a series of dishes made for R. Tunbridge and Sons by Shelley, England.

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