Bowl
Potter: Mommens, Ursula
Porcelain bowl. With incised decoration in the well, and very pale celadon glaze overall.
History note: Bought by Shakeshaft from St Matthew's Gallery (St Petersburg Place, London W2) at 12th Annual 4-day Exhibition.
Bequeathed by John Shakeshaft
Height: 5.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2016) by Shakeshaft, John, Dr
20th Century-21st Century
After
1922
CE
-
Before
2010
CE
Ursula Mommens (née Darwin,1908-2010), born in Cambridge, was a great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin and a descendant of Josiah Wedgwood; at school she learned music from Gustav Holst. Inspired by a pottery demonstration at the Ideal Home Exhibition, she studied first with Dora Billington at the Central School of Art and Design and then with William Staite Murray at the Royal College of Art before establishing her own pottery in Kent. In 1935 she moved to London, but after her pottery there was destroyed by wartime bombing she worked with Michael Cardew at both Winchcombe and Wenford Bridge. She believed in making pots that people could use. Her early work was vibrantly coloured earthenware; later she worked sometimes in porcelain but mainly stoneware, using iron and wood ash glazes, sometimes with incised or painted foliate or fish motifs. Mommens, who lived to the age of 101, was married to the artist and poet Julian Trevelyan RA from 1935-50 and the sculptor Norman Mommens, c.1952-62.
At Extremeties
Diameter 15 cm
At Base
Diameter 5.5 cm
Accession number: C.473-2016
Primary reference Number: 208125
Sale catalogue photo number: K439
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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