Tobacco Growing from the “New England Industries” Series

Designed by Clare Leighton, Wedgwood

1952

Clare Leighton was a painter, wood-engraver, and author. She illustrated a number of books, including, in 1932, her own pioneering work about the process of wood engraving. During the 1940s, while she was living and teaching in North Carolina, Wedgwood commissioned Leighton to design a set of twelve creamware plates depicting the industries of New England. She traveled around the Northeastern states searching for potential subject matter. The result is a series of scenes that reflect the essence of New England. Scenes in the collection include Tobacco Growing, Grist Milling, and Codfishing.

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Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of the scene Offering to Peace, featuring eight figures, from left to right Ceres holding a cornucopia, a female figure holding a branch and tending a fire on a tripod burner, Cupid holding a bow with a quiver next to a female figure with a small sheep and holding a floral crown, and a female figure holding a child's hand, the child standing next to two small vessels, on the right a female figure holding an offering over a low brazier, and the figure of Hera with staff and peacock.
Lamp finial of solid light blue jasper with white relief decoration in the form of stiff leaf motifs, in brass mount.
Tall, flattened vessel of squarish shape with coiled handles and a folded-like, slightly scrunched surface, covered with a deep blue glaze the surface of which is flecked and irregular.
Bust in profile right.