Current Location: In storage
Titles
Vase decorated with flowers
Maker(s)
Factory:
Doulton
Decorator:
Adams, Matilda S.
Entities
Categories
Description
Cream earthenware , slip coated and decorated underglaze with oxide colours and coated with clear lead-free glaze.
Vase with tall thin neck rising from bulbous body, decorated with rambling white single roses in green, cream and orange-brown, on brown ground which shades to cream on the neck. Brown rim and below it a green band outlined and marked in black. Interior undecorated. Pale brown-cream band around a protruding foot-rim; underside cream and glazed within rim.
Notes
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Measurements and weight
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 17 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2023)
by
Smythe, Ian and Rita
Dating
Victoria
Production date:
AD 1878
: marked
Note
Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles.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 and over the next 50 years employed some 400 artists, often former 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.
Matilda S. Adams is recorded as a faience department artist from 1882-1886, but the date on this vase indicates she was already employed in 1978.
Components of the work
Decoration
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Slip coated earthenware, decorated ubnder clear lead-free glaze
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: around four small interlocked 'D's
- Text: LAMBETH / DOULTON/FAIENCE
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Factory mark
- Text: 1878
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Mark
- Text: A
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Impressed
- Type: Mark
- Text: M s A / 724
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Painted in dark green
- Type: Mark
- Text: M.S.
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Painted in black script
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.42-2023
Primary reference Number: 239240
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 12 November 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
