Designer:
Cooper, Susie
Maker:
Susie Cooper China Ltd.
Bone china, aerographed in green with sgraffito and painted decoration.
Bone china, aerographed in green with sgraffito and painted decoration.
Vase, bone china, the body aerographed in olive green and decorated in sgrafitto with five large feathery spirals, each spiral finished on one side of the feather in black. Neck white, edged in black where it joins the shoulder. Underside flat and clear glazed within a narrow foot-rim.
History note: Formerly in the collection of Susie Cooper; bequeathed to her son, Timothy Barker, who gave it to the Museum.
Given by Timothy Barker, son of Susie Cooper and Cecil Barker
Diameter: 15 cm
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2020-04-27) by Barker, Timothy
Production date: circa AD 1958
This rare feather design, here on a typical 1950s shape, seems to have been a precursor to Susie Cooper’s better known 1960s designs such as ‘Assyrian’ and ‘Venetian’.
Moulded
Painted
Aerographed
Sgraffito
Glazed
Accession number: C.22-2020
Primary reference Number: 279206
Entry form number: 511
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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