- Object name(s):
- Poole Pottery; dish
- Brief description:
- grey flying boat G-ADHL 'Canopus' on blue waves; brown/yellow motor launch no. AMC2 flying blue ensign approaching from left; quay and steaming ship in left background; four gulls flying near plane
- Collection:
- Poole Museum
- Acquisition date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 11.12.1991
- Associated concept:
- maritime
- Associated concept:
- aviation
- Associated concept:
- ceramics
- Condition:
- good
- Condition:
- good
- Content - activity:
- air transport
- Content - date:
- Date - latest:
- 1940
- Date - period:
- Second World War
- Content - description:
- grey flying boat G-ADHL 'Canopus' on blue waves; brown/yellow motor launch no. AMC2 flying blue ensign approaching from left; quay and steaming ship in left background; four gulls flying near plane
- Content - person:
- Imperial Airways
- Person's association:
- company
- Content - place:
- Poole Harbour
- Content - place:
- Poole
- Dimension:
- diameter
- Dimension value:
- 38 cm
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension value:
- 7.8 cm
- Dimension:
- diameter
- Dimension value:
- 37.8 cm (max)
- Dimension:
- diameter
- Dimension value:
- 18.4 cm (min)
- Inscription content:
- inscription : painted : front : Port of Poole Empire Airways 1940
- Inscription content:
- inscription : painted : base :: This Dish was made and painted at the POOLE POTTERY in the year 1940/ Ship designed by Arthur Bradbury painted by Ruth Paveley
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object history note:
- features a C-Class Sunderland flying boat in which the pilot Arthur Hooper brought Harry Hopkins (President Roosevelt's envoy) to Britain in 1941, landing in Poole Harbour, to negotiate the Lend-Lease agreement. Apparently the dish was presented to Harry Hopkins by the Company [assumed Poole Pottery] on his departure, presumably through the British Overseas Airways Corporation repection centre which during the war occupied part of the showroom block. An address was presented with the dish reading as follows: 'To Mr Harry Hopkins who landed at the ancient Port of Poole On January 9 1941 on what may prove to the most important mission in the history of democracy, and who left England for America from the same port on February 10 1941. This piece of Poole Pottery, representing the chief industry of the town, is presented with great respect by the makers'. (Information found in the Arthur Bradbury information file.)
- Object name:
- Poole Pottery; dish
- Object number:
- POOMS:1991.153
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1940
- Object production person:
- Bradbury, Arthur
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production person:
- Paveley, Ruth
- Person's association:
- painter
- Object production place:
- Poole Quay
- Object production place:
- Poole
- Object production place:
- Poole Pottery
- Other number:
- T:1995.932
- Other number:
- lot no. 171
- Other number type:
- previous number
- Reproduction number:
- Object\POOMS1991-153 (1).jpg
- Reproduction number:
- Object\POOMS1991-153 (2).jpg
- Reproduction number:
- Object\POOMS1991-153 (3).jpg
- Reproduction number:
- Object\POOMS1991-153 (4).jpg
- Reproduction number:
- Object\POOMS1991-153 (5).jpg
- Reproduction type:
- result
- Technique:
- thrown & hand-painted & glazed
- Use begin date:
- 18.7.1998
- Use end date:
- 1.11.1998
- Use title:
- Poole, 750 Fascinating Facts and Figures
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/19d52027-5767-38c7-b764-c09859376888
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/19d52027-5767-38c7-b764-c09859376888, Poole Museum, CC BY-NC
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