Current Location: In storage
Titles
Wide bowl
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Della Robbia Pottery
Decorator:
Taylor, C
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe, 2018
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Measurements and weight
Height: 6.4 cm
Width: 26 cm
Place(s) associated
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Birkenhead
⪼ Cheshire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2023)
by
Smythe, Ian and Rita
Dating
Production date:
AD 1902
Note
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.
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Thrown, turned, slip coated, sgraffito and coloured glazes.
Painting
Turning
Inscription or legends present
- Text: D [ship outline] R
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: 1902 / 5
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Mark
Inscription present: Split above and below the factory mark; 'T' with a curled stem.
- Text: CT / ~ ll ~
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Incised and painted black
- Type: Decorator's mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.35-2023
Primary reference Number: 226783
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 7 May 2019
Updated: Wednesday 30 August 2023
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
