Figured vase
Factory:
Doulton & Co.
Designer and decorator:
Thompson, Margaret E
Decorator's assistant:
Webb, Minnie
(Probably)
Buff earthenware , decorated underglaze with oxide colours and coated with clear lead-free glaze.
Tall, thin, baluster shaped vase decorated with an image of two ladies in long dresses conversing in a rose garden. One dress is a very pale pink, the other a very pale green, the other deep blue, the roses are pale pink with deep green leaves. The lady in the green dress wears a wide brimmed bonnet, tied beneath her chin with a ribbon. The figures and plants are outlined, and detail added, in black-brown. The image is set against a ground of green grass and blue sky. The inside of the neck is soft yellow. The underside is cream and glazed, within a foot-rim, as is the interior.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 36 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
20th Century, Early
Circa
1900
CE
-
Circa
1914
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Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles.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.
One of a pair, the figures different but in similar style. Margaret E Thompson worked at Doulton from c.1900-c.1920. She painted faience in a style which featured flat areas of colour and clearly outlined figures, similar to those in children’s book illustrations of Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott in the late 19th century. Minnie Webb was a senior assistant who worked on both stoneware and faience.
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
clear glaze
Base
Diameter 12 cm
Inscription present: circular mark - very faint
Inscription present: within a circle, around quatrefoil
Inscription present: peeled away
Accession number: C.38-2023
Primary reference Number: 227183
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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