Plate with butterfly design
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Maida Wright
Australia
late 19th century – 1929
Plate with butterfly design
1910-20
hand-painted porcelain blank
Australia
late 19th century – 1929
Plate with butterfly design
1910-20
hand-painted porcelain blank
Currently on display, Gallery 18
- Place made
- Adelaide
- Medium
- hand-painted porcelain blank
- Dimensions
- 0.9 x 13.7 cm (diam.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Sandy McLachlan through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2020
- Accession number
- 20207C166A
- Signature and date
- Signed on base, "MAIDA WRIGHT". Not dated.
- Provenance
- Created by Maida Wright, Adelaide; Gifted to Emily Goldsworthy Hammer c.1920; then by descent to Sandy McLachlan (great-granddaughter): Gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 2020.
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Collection area
- Australian decorative arts and design
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The establishment of the government run Adelaide School of Design in 1881 saw enormous numbers of women educated in painting, repoussé, embroidery, and wood carving. Women were the main producers and buyers of hand-painted ceramics, often acquiring pieces to mark special occasions such as birthdays or weddings. A group of artists from the Adelaide School of Design were among those who exhibited at the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in Melbourne in 1907. Artists including Marmie Venner, Maida Wright and Floy Hubble exhibited widely and were well known in their lifetimes.
Recent research has revived an interest in this period, particularly Adelaide’s intimate relationship with the British Arts and Crafts movement and the association between vocational training, suffrage, and women’s rights.