Wide bowl
Pottery:
Della Robbia Pottery
Decorator:
Taylor, C
Red clay, thrown, slip coated and decorated with sgraffito and coloured glazes.
Wide bowl with flat everted rim and turned foot. Decorated in shades of green and purple on the upper side with a stylised four leaf foliate design and a continuous pattern of curves, interspersed with dots, on the rim. The underside clear glazed with a slightly raised foot-rim.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe, 2018
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 6.4 cm
Width: 26 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
Production date: AD 1902
The Della Robbia Pottery, founded by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler. From 1894 until closure in 1906 it produced a range of decorative ceramics in Art Nouveau style and influenced by 15th and 16th century Italian ceramics. Following the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, pieces were hand thrown and decorated and individual decorators encouraged to mark their work. Typically, designs were set out in sgraffito over white slip and coloured with special fluid colours, formed from pigments mixed with water and gum arabic, which blended with the glaze to give exceptionally bright hues.
The marks here indicate sqraffito decoration by C Taylor, who is know to have worked at the pottery around this date, and may also have designed the shape.
Throwing
: Thrown, turned, slip coated, sgraffito and coloured glazes.
Painting
Turning
Inscription present: Split above and below the factory mark; 'T' with a curled stem.
Accession number: C.35-2023
Primary reference Number: 226783
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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