Current Location: In storage
Titles
Tall slim vase (one of a pair)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Minton
Designer:
Wadsworth, John
Designer:
Solon, Léon Victor
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware, moulded and decorated with slips, oxides, enamels and coloured glazes.
One of a pair of tall slim earthenware vases, with straight sides rising from a rounded base to a widened upper rim moulded to suggest the shape of a woman’s ball-gown. Decorated on each sided with an olive coloured leafy branch flowing upwards from an olive coloured band around the base to three tube-lined flowers decorated with turquoise and purple glazes. Outside the flowers, covered insided and out with a pale green glaze. Underside slightly indented.
Notes
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Measurements and weight
Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 9 cm
Place(s) associated
-
Stoke-on-Trent
⪼ Staffordshire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2023)
by
Smythe, Ian and Rita
Dating
20th Century, Early
1903
CE
-
1914
CE
Note
Léon Victor Solon (1872-1957) joined Minton in 1895, and John Wadsworth (1879-1955) in 1902. From 1903, they led the introduction of Minton ‘Secessionist Ware’, range of vases, plates, teapots, jardinières and other items featuring Art Nouveau designs applied to new elongated shapes and accentuated by tube-lining. Solon favoured sinuous figurative and foliate designs, Wadsworth’s tend to be more rationalised and restrained. 'Secessionist Ware' was produced until 1914.
School or Style
Art Nouveau
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
Inscription or legends present
- Text: MINTON
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Incised stamp
- Type: Factory mark
Inscription present: [other incised marks indecipherable]
- Text: S.
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Mark
- Text: 3336
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Number
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.20-2023
Primary reference Number: 226723
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 9 April 2019
Updated: Wednesday 30 August 2023
Last processed: Monday 15 January 2024
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
