The Rameking

Worldwide Headquarters of the Australian Studio Art Ramekin, (and a few others) that piece of Australiana that has almost disappeared from our lives and tables. How many of you Baby Boomers have sat in front of a warm fire in winter, eating tinned spaghetti from a ramekin? In the period between the World Wars, and in the decades after, many famous artists made ramekins. They continued until cheap imports and copies almost killed them off in the 1970s. See them here in all their faded glory.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Mystery Maker Marked Y or XY

Designer
Maker
Marks	Y or YX impressed to base under handle
Description	Wheel thrown stoneware ramekin of large volume. Rough stub handle fixed roughly to body with countervailing support handle opposite. Brown glaze lightly applied to interior. Exterior brown glaze patterned with antiquing to relief banding.
Condition	Very Good
Number
Production Date	Typical of faux colonial stoneware of the 1970s
Width	140mm
Depth	65mm
Length (with handle)	190mm
Weight	650gm
Volume	750ml
Acquisition	Holbrook Op Shop, April 2011

Nothing known on this maker. Ramekin shows how the serving sizes increased from the early days of between 200 to 250ml to this one of 750ml. This period also shows the last-gasp of the Australian Studio-Art Ramekin.

The Rameking

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Mystery Maker Marked Y or XY

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