Small vase
Maker: Fournier, Sheila
Porcelain, thrown, cut, incised and stained.
Small, spherical bowl with base drawn down to a very narrow foot and the top of the sphere open forming a wide mouth. At one side of the mouth is a small cut and key-hole. Around the shoulder is a collar with a slightly rougher surface, flecked with yellow. Brown (iron or manganese) stain around the opening continues down through the cut, over the collar, and into an incised pendulum-like decoration which runs down to the base. The underside has a narrow foot-ring.
History note: Unknown before Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor; on loan since 2006.
Given by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor
Height: in cm
Width: in cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
AD 1975
Sheila Fournier (1930-2000) studied ceramics while training as a teacher at Goldsmiths College. Based first at Castle Hill in Kent and from 1971 at Lacock Pottery, Wiltshire, she produced tableware with her husband, the ceramicist Robert Fournier (1915-2008), whilst also making individual pieces, mainly in oxidized stoneware and porcelain. She is best known for her more delicate porcelain pieces with shapes and decorative motifs reminiscent of Art Nouveau, of which this and C.16-1977 are good examples. Her other work includes hand-built stoneware bowls that suggest an organic origin with layered petal-like forms, an example being C.29-1981. She retired from potting in 1987.
Sheila and Robert Fournier made a number of films, including: ‘David Leach’ and ‘Raku, English Style’. They completed several literary ventures together and set up the archive of the Craft Potters Association, now part of the Ceramic Archive at Aberystwyth.
Decoration composed of stain ( brown (iron or manganese))
Throwing : Porcelain, thrown, cut, incised and stained.
Inscription present: (the 7 with elongated stem like a pendulum)
Accession number: C.131-2015
Primary reference Number: 205006
Batchelor number: none
Entry form number: 648
Old object number: AAL.131-2006
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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