IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73965 accession number: C.27-1983 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The vase, an inverted bell-shape, is decorated on the outside with a garland of six red pomegranates, yellow-green leaves and purple, cream and red grapes, against a mottled blue-green ground; two of the pomegranates are split to show their seeds. The colours are rich, but sparingly applied so that the cream earthenware body shows through. On the inside is a similar garland, but with fewer grapes, on a thin coating of the mottled blue-green which covers the whole surface. The vase sits on a short, flared foot. The underside is slightly recessed and glazed, though not coloured. object type: Cream earthenware vase with slip trailed design, painted underglaze in deep shades of blue, red, purple, green and cream, with 'Pomegranate' pattern. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Mrs Maurice Hill, July 1983; previously owned by her mother. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Maurice Hill STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73965 PEOPLE ------------------- Moorcroft Pottery Burslem School of Art SUBJECTS ------------------- pomegranate pomegranate TECHNIQUES ---------- Cream earthenware, the decoration outlined in slip and painted underglaze in dark blue, dark pink, purple and yellowish-green. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1911 - 1913 creation date earliest: 1911 creation date latest: 1913 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: James Macintyre & Co maker: Moorcroft, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.3 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.0 dimension: Height units: in value: 7.9 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Liberty’s 1875-1975: An exhibition to mark the firm’s centenary William Moorcroft and Walter Moorcroft, 1897-1973 : catalogue of an exhibition of pottery at the Fine Art Society, 4 December to 15 December 1973 at 148 New Bond Street, London W.1 Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897-1993 Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Dictionary of Ceramic Artists --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27_1983_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_27_1983_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 663 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_27_1983_285_29.jpg height: 573 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_27_1983_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 663 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_27_1983_285_29.jpg height: 287 pixels width: 250 pixels