Flared bowl
Factory:
Wedgwood
Designer:
Wilson, Norman
Earthenware, with moulded decoration, glazed inside and out.
Flared white earthenware bowl with narrow, raised base. Interior with 20 moulded lines curving from base to rim, decorated with purple hare’s fur glaze. Exterior coated with a matt mushroom glaze. Underside flat with foot-rim, undecorated.
History note: Presented by Lesley Boyd, daughter of Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew’s, Fife.
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Diameter: 20.5 cm
Height: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2020-01-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
20th Century, Mid
Elizabeth II
Circa
1930
CE
-
1960
CE
Norman Wilson (1902-85) learned his trade working in his father’s china works while studying at North Staffordshire technical College, where he won a silver medal and, later, lectured. He joined Wedgwood as Works Manager in 1927, and became joint Managing Director a few years before his retirement in 1963. His main contribution was in the technical modernisation of the factory, but he also created a number of decorative glazes and contributed to the design of successful tableware series.
Wilson was inspired by Chinese ceramics, particularly those of the Sung Dynasty potters (960-1279 AD) which favour elegant shapes and rich glazes. His ‘Unique Wares’ feature a wide variety of forms and experimental glazes, sometimes using several glazes on a single pot. The shape number on this bowl, 1581, suggests it is an earlier example.
Decoration composed of glaze
Accession number: C.4-2020
Primary reference Number: 240191
Entry form number: 508
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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