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pierced bowl with floral decoration
Pottery:
Doulton & Co.
Designer and decorator:
Butler, Frank A.
Decorator's assistant:
Aitken, Mary
Decorator's assistant:
Evans, Bertha
Decorator's assistant:
Hurst, Jane
(Possibly)
Salt-glazed stoneware bowl, with pierced, incised and applied decoration, and painted in shades of blue, green, brown, ochre and white.
Shallow bowl on a small foot. Richly decorated on the interior and exterior with incised foliate and scroll patterns, applied flowerheads and beads, coloured slips and underglaze oxide colours. There are four pierced sections towards the upper rim. The whole is salt-glazed, except for a rim around the inside base and the underside, which is flat.
History note: Purchased from Richard Dennis, 144 Kensington Church Street, London, W.8
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 26 cm
Diameter: 10.25 in
Height: 12 cm
Height: 4.75 in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1971) by Dennis, Richard
19th Century, Late#
Victorian
Production date:
AD 1880
: marked
Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles.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; over the next 50 years, he employed some 400 artists, many of them Lambeth School of Art students. Doulton championed individuality, innovation and versatility, and his modellers and decorators used a wide range of techniques and decorative treatments in producing both unique, artist-signed, and limited edition pieces. From 1872 the business expanded into faience and in the 1880s opened a factory at Burslem, Staffordshire, where bone china and other wares were made. In 1901, Edward VII granted the Royal warrant to the factory. Stoneware production at Lambeth reduced after 1914, and ceased in 1956.
Frank Butler, originally a stained glass designer, overcame deafness to design many thousands of pieces for Doulton between 1872 until 1911. This piece is typical of his work, which often includes carving or forming the wet clay vessel into shapes and is notable for its originality and invention. As John Sparkes, Head of Lambeth School of Art, found: ‘a certain massing together of floral forms and an ingenious treatment of discs, dots and interlacing lines indicate his hand’. Butler often worked with several assistants. Mary Aitken worked at Doulton from 1875-94, Bertha Evans from 1881-87, and Jane Hurst from 1881-1914; all three are listed as senior Doulton ware assistants in 1882.
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( blue, green, brown, ochre, white)
Salt-glazing
: Salt-glazed stoneware, with incised and applied decoration, painted in brown, blue, green, white and ochre.
Painting
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: circular seal with 'DOULTON LAMBETH', 1880 below
Inscription present: lower case
Inscription present: large capital, with bottom of verticals splayed
Accession number: C.8-1971
Primary reference Number: 76165
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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