Vase
Pottery:
Bretby Art Pottery
Henry Tooth & Co.
Thrown earthenware vase coated with red lustre glaze.
Earthenware vase of ovoid form with high shoulders, small neck and everted rim, standing on slim foot-rim. Decorated over the whole exterior and inside neck in shades of dark red lustre. Underside very slightly indented and clear glazed.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Diameter: 19 cm
Height: 26 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
1884 CE - Circa 1930
Bretby Art Pottery, officially known as Tooth & Co. Ltd., was started in 1883 by Henry Tooth (previously of Linthorpe Pottery) and William Ault. They designed and built their own pottery and produced both inexpensive pressed wares and thrown art products. They experimented with both shapes and surfaces, including glazes to emulate pewter and copper. Ault left in 1887 to set up on his own in Swadlincote. Bretby stayed in the hands of the Tooth family until 1933. Continuing after WWII, it became known as Tooth and Company Limited Bretby Art Pottery, before moving into industrial products in the 1950s, eventually closing c.1996.
Decoration composed of lustre
Accession number: C.63-2023
Primary reference Number: 227338
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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