Factory:
Doulton
Decorator:
Pope, Francis C.
Buff stoneware with incised decoration painted in blue, bluish-grey, dull turquoise, and pink and salt-glazed.
Squat buff stoneware vase with wide base and straight sides rising to a short narrow neck and everted rim. Slip-coated and decorated with an incised design of stylised foliage, painted in buff and green, on a deep blue ground, with the rounded edges of the base and under-rim thinly painted pink. Underside flat with a low foot-rim.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Diameter: 11 cm
Height: 11.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
20th Century, Early
1902
CE
-
Circa
1910
CE
Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles. Henry Doulton introduced decorative stoneware and architectural terracotta at Lambeth in the mid 1860s; over the next 50 years, he employed some 400 artists, many of them Lambeth School of Art students. Doulton championed individuality, innovation and versatility, and his modellers and decorators (many of them women) used a wide range of techniques and decorative treatments to produce both unique, artist-signed, and limited edition pieces. From 1872 the business expanded into faience and in the 1880s opened a factory at Burslem, Staffordshire, where bone china and other wares were made. In 1901, Edward VII granted the Royal warrant to the factory.
Francis (Frank) Pope worked at Doulton Lambeth from 1880- 1925, originally as an assistant. Many of his designs were slip-cast as limited editions and sometimes produced by other artists, though the incised mark and number here indicates his own hand. He favoured tube-lined and brush-lined designs and gourd-like shapes and also designed architectural items and statuary.
Decoration
Throwing : Stoneware with incised decoration, underglaze colours and salt-glaze.
Inscription present: or HW?
Accession number: C.40-2023
Primary reference Number: 226585
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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