Honey box drip tray

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This Wemyss ware honey box drip tray was made between around 1885 and 1930 at Robert Heron & Sons' pottery at Kirkcaldy in Fife.

The tray is decorated with hand-painted bees in flight buzzing around a beehive.

This type of honey box tray was part of a pattern (one of several) specially reserved by the London china merchants, Thomas Goode & Co. Goodes recognised a potential large market for this type of ware and they became Heron's English agents and handled much of the firm's output.

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• Online ID: 000-180-000-358-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.1994.64
• Date: Between around 1885 and 1930
  
• Material: Wemyss ware; pressed? earthenware; underglaze painted and glazed. Inscription: WEMYSS [impressed]
  Drip tray, honey box
  
• Dimensions: 20 mm H x 190 mm L x 190 mm W
  
• What: Drip tray, honey box
  
• Subject:
• Who: Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy (Maker)
  Thomas Goode and Co.
  
• Where: Scotland, Fife, Kirkcaldy (Fife Pottery)
  
• Event:
• Description: Square, Wemyss ware drip tray for a covered honey box, impressed with `Wemyss' and hand painted with a bee skep and bees in flight, by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, c. 1885 - 1930
  
• References:
  • Peter Davies & Robert Rankin, Wemyss ware: A Decorative Scottish Pottery, Scottish Academic Press, 1986 
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