Tulip vase
Factory:
Minton & Co.
Designer:
Wadsworth, John
Designer:
Solon, Léon Victor
Beige clay, moulded and decorated with underglaze transfers, slip trailing and coloured glazes
Mid-sized vase with wide, rounded base rising through a concave shape and long neck to small everted neck rim. Exterior decorated at the bottom with transferred pattern of stylised pale green leaves, upper part with four tall slip-trailed tulips surrounded by falling petals, painted with ochre, white and pale green glazes. Inside neck groggy and clear glazed. Underside clear glazed.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Diameter: 13.5 cm
Height: 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
20th Century, Early
Edward VII
Production date:
circa
AD 1902
: perhaps
Early Secessionist ware was decorated with both transfer printing and slip trailing. Both the transfer pattern and the tulip design here are found on other Minton designs.
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 slip-trailing. Solon favoured sinuous figurative and foliate designs, Wadsworth’s tend to be more rationalised and restrained. 'Secessionist Ware' was produced until 1914.
Decoration
Accession number: C.25-2023
Primary reference Number: 227174
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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