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This wine tray was designed to hold two decanters and glasses so that wine or sherry could be served more easily to groups of people.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Henry Cole (1808-1882) and his friend the artist Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) collaborated over several products for Summerley's Art Manufactures in 1847. They visited Jennens & Bettridge and another papier-mâché manufacturer, Frederick Walton of Wolverhampton, to discuss designs. Redgrave's design for tray, decanters and glasses was approved by Cole in September 1847 and John Bettridge, who had agreed to make the tray, produced the first example in January 1848. Cole bought this tray from Bettridge in 1865 for £3 4s (£3.20) for the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A).<br><br><b>Trading</b><br>Cole optimistically advertised this 'supper tray', as he called it, with decanters and glasses in October 1847, although the first example was not ready until January 1848. He continued to promote this new design by including it in an exhibition that he organised  at the Royal Society of Arts, London, in 1848. Jennens & Bettridge showed the tray on their stand at the Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, Birmingham, in 1849, which was praised by Cole in the <i>Journal of Design</i>.","physicalDescription":"Wine tray made of japanned and gilded papier-mâché with appliqué of mother-of-pearl.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Redgrave, Richard (CB, RA, ARA)","id":"A8777"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Jennens and Bettridge","id":"A9140"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"papier mache","id":"AAT14245"},{"text":"mother of pearl","id":"AAT11835"}],"techniques":[{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Papier-mâché, japanned and gilded, with appliqué of mother-of-pearl","categories":[{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AP3987","2006AN2542","2006AU2573","2014HB8356","2017KL4472"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"122G (VA)","id":"THES49219"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":"8"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Wine tray","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Birmingham","id":"x28748"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1865","earliest":"1865-01-01","latest":"1865-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"1847","earliest":"1847-01-01","latest":"1847-12-31"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"40","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"72.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 24/05/1999 by LH","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Designed by Richard Redgrave CB, RA (born in London, 1804, died there in 1888) for Felix Summerly's Art Manufactures; made by the firm of Jennens & Bettridge, Birmingham","historicalContext":"Other examples of the wine tray survive. One, of the same design, stamped by Jennens & Bettridge but with different floral decoration, was sold for £190 by Mallams Salerooms, Oxford, 25th July 2007.","briefDescription":"Wine tray, English, designed 1847 by Richard Redgrave and made 1865 by Jennens and Bettridge","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jones, Yvonne, <i>Japanned Papier-Mâché and Tinware c. 1740-1940</i>.  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The decoration of bunches of grapes on the decanter was deemed appropriate to its use as a container for sherry.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["132-1865"],"accessionNumberNum":"132","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1865,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN2144","2019LP5687","2019LV1596"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}