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The pattern consists of a solid central disk surrounded by a band of open-work wheat sheaf ornament.  Outside this is a ring of four panels, two with a pair of semi-recumbant hippo camps separated by a trident and two with a pair of mermen holding up a scallop shell.  Between these panels and the rim of the dish is a field of scrolling acanthus foliage.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Karl Friedrich Schinkel","id":"A5663"},"association":{"text":"designers","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Coalbrookdale Company","id":"A9071"},"association":{"text":"makers","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"cast iron","id":"AAT11004"},{"text":"gold","id":"AAT11021"}],"techniques":[{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"patinating","id":"x41259"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cast iron with gold patination","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Ironwork","id":"THES251837"},{"text":"Eating","id":"THES48963"},{"text":"Food vessels & Tableware","id":"THES48952"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2025PF4669"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"114C","id":"THES49912"},"free":"","case":"23","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Fruit-dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Shropshire","id":"x29141"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1846","earliest":"1841-01-01","latest":"1850-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"M.37-1993","id":"O78564"},"association":"Pair"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"29","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'COALBROOKDALE'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Marked on base"}],"objectHistory":"Although the dish was cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, one of the most famous iron foundries established in Shropshire in the 18th century, it is not an English pattern.  The original was designed in the 1820s for the Berlin Royal Iron Foundry by the German architect and designer, Karl Frederich Schinkel (1781-1841).  Schinkel designed a number of domestic items for the three Royal iron foundries including several openwork dishes, but Coalbrookdale appear only to have reproduced two of them, this example and a slightly smaller pattern with nereids and sea-monsters (see Berlin exh.cat., 406).  The slightly blurred quality of the casting suggests that the mould was taken from an existing plate.  The dishes are described in an article in  the <u>Art Union</u> in 1846 (with no mention of their Berlin origins and can be found in the Coalbrookdale catalogue of 1877, but do not appear thereafter, indicating that the Victorian taste for such objects was relatively short-lived.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Fruit dish, cast iron with coloured gold patination, marked 'COALBROOKDALE' on the base, made by Coalbrookdale Company after a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Shropshire, ca. 1846","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>The Art Union</u>, 1 August 1846, p.224."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"E. Schmidt:  <u>Der Preussischer Eisenkunstguss</u>, Berlin, 1981, p.173"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Eisen statt Gold</u> (exh. cat. Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, November 1982-January 1983), cat. no. 405"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"G. 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It was copied from one originally designed by the architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, for the Prussian Royal Foundry in Berlin in about 1820. The copying of designs by rival factories was widespread. This design was still being manufactured in 1877 and featured in the Coalbrookdale sales catalogue that year.\r\n\r\nMuseum No. M.38-1993","date":{"text":"06/11/2025","earliest":"2025-11-06","latest":"2025-11-06"}},{"text":"18. FRUIT DISH, cast iron with coloured gold patination, England; c. 1846\r\nMarked on the base COALBROOKDALE, for Coalbrookdale & Company, Shropshire. From a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841).\r\nMuseum No. M.38-1993","date":{"text":"07/1994","earliest":"1994-07-01","latest":"1994-07-31"}}],"partNumbers":["M.38-1993"],"accessionNumberNum":"38","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1993,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}