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Posted by Andrew J Pye
on March 11, 2008, 6:41 pm, in reply to "Looking for the source of an 1850's design"
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Hi Gordon
You are beginning to lose me. I cannot find the Jewitt reference to the Sydenham Works and Clementson. I am working from memory, but I reckon the platter had a seated large lady or two as the sculpture, not a standing sylph-like figure. Clementson and Sydenham may be a red herring, but I still believe that the Great Exhibition is what prompted the outbreak of classical sculpture on tableware.
The Great Exhibition was held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park in 1851, which is nowhere near Sydenham. The Palace was moved to Penge Place, Sydenham Hill and re-opened there in 1854 and the area only became known as Crystal Palace much later after what had become its most famous landmark, until it burnt down in 1936. If you were naming a china pattern of classical sculpture following the re-opening of the Cast Courts then Sydenham would be a good fit.
Regards
Andrew
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