Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1976-1984
Artist: Mel Calman (1931-1994)
Dimensions:
.1-5 300 × 210 mm (30 × 21 cm)
.6 150 × 105 mm (15 × 10.5 cm)
.7 110 × 230 mm (11 × 23 cm)
.8 300 × 210 mm (30 × 21 cm)
Medium: paper
ink
Object number: P.2016.301.M.1-8
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Descriptionsix photocopies of Calman drawings for cookware by Honiton Pottery, a newspaper cutting, photocopy of a joke for US syndication:
.1 –Calman Cookery … chef in apron & chef’s hat holding a saucepan
.2 –‘If I say I liked it’ … man eating food while wife is waiting for compliment
.3 –‘your supper is in this recipe book’
.4 –two drawings of couples, a- where wife tells man to cook his own supper,b2- talking about puddings,
.5 –‘made with love, was it?’ couple eating food & bottle of wine between them
.6 – suggested alternative joke (with Honiton Pottery compliment slip stapled to it) about failure, with food & wine from above pasted onto another drawing (not used)
.7 –newspaper cutting from 18/12/84 about flan, baking and soufflé dishes decorated by Calman showing photograph of ‘If I say I liked it’ joke
.8 –photocopy of ‘well?’ ‘If I say I liked it – will you promise not to give to me again’ done for Field Enterprises Inc. 1976
(C) S & C Calman
.1 –Calman Cookery … chef in apron & chef’s hat holding a saucepan
.2 –‘If I say I liked it’ … man eating food while wife is waiting for compliment
.3 –‘your supper is in this recipe book’
.4 –two drawings of couples, a- where wife tells man to cook his own supper,b2- talking about puddings,
.5 –‘made with love, was it?’ couple eating food & bottle of wine between them
.6 – suggested alternative joke (with Honiton Pottery compliment slip stapled to it) about failure, with food & wine from above pasted onto another drawing (not used)
.7 –newspaper cutting from 18/12/84 about flan, baking and soufflé dishes decorated by Calman showing photograph of ‘If I say I liked it’ joke
.8 –photocopy of ‘well?’ ‘If I say I liked it – will you promise not to give to me again’ done for Field Enterprises Inc. 1976
(C) S & C Calman
