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Harvest ware vase
Production: Wade, Heath & Co.
Earthenware vase, hand-painted underglaze with stylised flowers and leaves.
Globular vase with a low, splayed foot and short, slightly everted neck. Cream earthenware decorated all over with large flowers and foliage painted in green, yellow, dark pink and purple under clear glaze. Interior glazed. Underside slightly concave and glazed, within a wide unglazed foot-rim.
Bequeathed by Mrs Muriel Elizabeth Webb, Saffron Walden, 1996
Diameter: 22.2 cm
Height: 21.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1996) by Webb, M. E., Mrs
20th Century, Mid#
Circa
1947
CE
-
Circa
1955
CE
Wade family potteries are recorded from 1867. The ‘Pottery Gazette’ of April 1895 notes that J W Wade & Co. made flower-pots and vases with ‘bright and gay floral decoration on a light groundwork’ as well as ‘tiles far above the average’. By 1935, Wade, Heath and Co. at the Royal Victoria Pottery was one of three Wade companies operating in Burslem, making teapots, vases, flower jugs and 'fancies'. After the War years, when production turned to tea, dinner-wares and heavy white ware for the forces, Harvest ware was made from c. 1947-55, often coated or dipped in copper lustre. In the 1950s, Wade became best known for its small, collectible animal and nursery-rhyme figures known as ‘Wade whimsies’. The last Wade factory in Burslem closed in 2010, when the Wade Allied Holdings opened a new, state-of-the-art factory in Stoke-on-Trent, where it now produces luxury ceramic packaging such as commemorative decanters and whisky flagons.
Decoration
composed of
pigments
clear glaze
Base
Diameter 11.2 cm
Throwing : Earthenware painted in green, yellow, dark pink, purple and brown under clear glaze.
Inscription present: 'HARVEST' describes a semi-circle, other words straight
Accession number: C.15-1996
Primary reference Number: 72152
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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