Current Location: Mezzanine Landing
Titles
Copper charger
Maker(s)
Maker:
Pearson, John
Entities
Categories
Description
Copper sheet, raised, embossed and chased.
Large, circular, dark brown copper charger, with a wide flat bowl surrounded by a horizontal rim and covered with repoussé decoration. On a raised dome in the centre is a tree, with the sun behind it, surrounded by a circular chain of eight hounds, and around that the inscription ‘WHAT DEEDS ARE DONE IN THE NAME OF POVERTY’. Around the rim is a continuous scrolling design of stylised leaves, some supporting berries. Six point hanging frame fitted around the back.
Notes
History note: Lent by The Keatley Trust, 2015
Legal notes
Lent by The Keatley Trust, 2015
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 51.2 cm
Height: 3 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Loan
(2015-11-23)
by
Keatley Trust
Dating
19th Century, Late
Production date:
AD 1890
: dated
Note
John Pearson (1859-1930), born in Lambeth to a journeyman broom maker, trained in metalwork with the Home Arts & Industries Association. He was a ceramics designer and decorator for William De Morgan in the 1880s, working on blanks and tiles. In 1888 he became a founder member of the Guild of Handicraft, set up by C R Ashbee as a craftsmens’ co-operative in Whitechapel, but resigned in 1892 to develop his own commercial practice as a metalworker and ceramic designer. In 1892, Pearson moved to Newlyn, Cornwall, where he spent several years teaching industrial design. He returned to London in 1901, opening a workshop in Hanway St, London W1, where made decorative metalwork, decorated ceramics and continued to teach until 1929. He is best known for his repoussé copper pieces. Both Liberty’s and Morris & Co. sold his work.
School or Style
Arts and Crafts (movement)
People, subjects and objects depicted
Materials used in production
Copper sheet
Techniques used in production
Raising
: Copper sheet, raised, embossed and chased.
Embossing
Chasing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: J Pearson 1890
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Handwritten inscription scratched onto surface
- Type: Maker's mark
- Text: 359 [within a circle]
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Handwritten inscription scratched onto surface
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: AAL.2-2015
Primary reference Number: 208255
Entry form: 1308
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 9 February 2016
Updated: Wednesday 18 December 2024
Last processed: Saturday 22 March 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
External
Associated department:
Applied Arts
