1592996620000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-73965 1747160258358 1714467743000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-73965 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73965 fd4657d6-b978-3e99-b97f-1fa6956cc81a 5 reference agent-189003 adlib-agent-189003 3728f51f-b30c-365d-86a8-254bc9bef8fa Moorcroft Pottery reference agent-189002 adlib-agent-189002 60037f60-78b0-30bc-969b-24395ceb96cf Burslem School of Art reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware reference term-42688 adlib-term-42688 4df03958-5ee6-3a50-ada9-491bb6445fdf Art Pottery dark blue, dark pink, purple and yellowish-green reference term-132909 adlib-term-132909 3a3553a8-8cb0-3d1d-a974-18878d743c4a underglaze colours reference term-34794 adlib-term-34794 de23d2db-1e19-38a6-9db0-80f062e799ca slip Decoration in dark blue, dark pink, purple and yellowish-green reference term-120109 adlib-term-120109 0ac0da43-b119-38cf-9afd-87a3520c8d17 painting underglaze reference term-27681 adlib-term-27681 a4de095b-5c3c-304f-b91f-4ac0a4e69d5e slip trailing Diameter cm 13.3 Diameter in 5.375 Foot reference term-115 adlib-term-115 94d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8 Nature Applied Arts 2012 2012 2012-07-17 Cream earthenware vase with slip trailed design, painted underglaze in deep shades of blue, red, purple, green and cream, with 'Pomegranate' pattern. 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. C.27-1983 1 accession number C.27-1983 73965 priref 73965 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73965 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73965 on underside of base transfer printed in brown MADE FOR/LIBERTY & Co mark on base impressed 1398 number green script signature in use until c.1920 on underside of base green enamel or transfer W. Moorcroft mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Mrs Maurice Hill reference agent-151889 adlib-agent-151889 35dfe909-90aa-342e-8b63-55b752500084 Hill, Maurice, Mrs 1983 1983 1983 given Entry date: 31 January 1983 1911 1911 CE 1911 circa 1911 1913 1 1913 CE 1913 1913 factory reference agent-189020 adlib-agent-189020 ea74944b-20ec-3947-8d6d-6a1520b5b4c6 James Macintyre & Co designer reference agent-94856 adlib-agent-94856 249881f2-d1d2-3270-be0d-5779dd840ab7 Moorcroft, William William Moorcroft (1872-1945), the son of a potteries artist and designer, trained at Burslem School of Art and in London and Paris. From c.1897-1913 he was chief designer for James Macintyre & Co.’s new Art Pottery department, in Burslem. His designs were sold through Tiffany of New York, Liberty of London and other prestigious stores. In 1913, Macintyre’s reverted to industrial wares and some thirty workers transferred to a newly established Moorcroft Pottery, in Sandbach Road, Cobridge, set up with financial support from Liberty’s; both businesses continue today. Moorcroft designed both the shape and decoration of his pottery, each complementing the other, and experimented widely with glazes and decorating processes. He favoured curvilinear, naturalistic forms and by 1910-11, when ‘Pomegranate’ design was introduced, was using rich colours applied in bold, sweeping designs. The light slip-trailing enhances the tonal variety, by allowing some colours to merge together. An earlier version used a mottled yellowish ground. 'Pomegranate', sold at Liberty’s under the trade name 'Murena', became one of Moorcroft’s most popular designs and continued in (hand-thrown) production at the new pottery. During the 1920s, unmarked imitation 'Pomegranate' wares were produced by a local rival. reference term-109008 adlib-term-109008 841b18bd-944d-3c9c-8d39-bdaabbcc28e1 20th Century, Early reference term-108171 adlib-term-108171 c943fe08-bd72-32ab-823c-e1eeb56717b3 literal England England country Burslem reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Diameter cm 20.3 Diameter in 8 Height cm 20.0 Height in 7.9 reference media-41351 adlib-media-41351 cbc54620-cb4b-3d53-ab5d-934537420aaa jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582981107 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582981107 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582981107 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582981107 1 image 0 media image reference media-41352 adlib-media-41352 a86e4cc6-cf9d-341a-8dbf-267d0242f732 jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582979724 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582979724 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582979724 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582979724 1 image 1 media image reference media-41353 adlib-media-41353 007fbdf2-01d6-3d79-b893-8394d3335219 jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583024009 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583024009 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583024009 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583024009 1 image 2 media image reference media-41354 adlib-media-41354 66ee6cc5-270a-3462-b096-0080c498817c jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582981587 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_27_1983_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582981587 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_27_1983_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582981587 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_27_1983_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582981587 1 image 3 media image reference media-41355 adlib-media-41355 33032656-066a-3942-9233-31359706a9ce jpeg aa/aa19/C_27_1983_285_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 663 1742583030473 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/mid_C_27_1983_285_29.jpg 1 height pixels 573 width pixels 500 1742583030473 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/C_27_1983_285_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 663 1742583030473 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/preview_C_27_1983_285_29.jpg 1 height pixels 287 width pixels 250 1742583030473 1 image 4 media image reference term-89480 adlib-term-89480 f1ea518e-351c-3f42-b2a7-db0f8559fa2c vase history note Given by Mrs Maurice Hill, July 1983; previously owned by her mother. 1 same maker reference object-75137 adlib-object-75137 611b8f1e-dbb1-3013-9470-7bd2bf05b7b1

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coffee service reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. with colour illustration, pp. 126-7, no. 58 pp. 126-7 reference publication-1030 adlib-publication-1030 9cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Cf. examples of Moorcroft pottery produced for Liberty’s, including ‘Pomegranate’ pattern (called ‘Murena’ in the Liberty’s catalogue), D242: bowl, pink, blue and green design on pale green and cream ground, c.1910; D244 : plate and biscuit box, red, blue and yellow design on mottled blue and yellow ground, c.1911. 84-88 reference publication-7465 adlib-publication-7465 aef6c2e8-d950-3377-b815-0d4a5208e7da Liberty’s 1875-1975: An exhibition to mark the firm’s centenary Cf. Black and white llustrations of the Pomegranate pattern on a vase, no. 196, and a vase of this shape, no. 191. See pp.12-14 for links with Liberty's and 1920s imitations. pp. 12, 60,61 reference publication-3556 adlib-publication-3556 37f3022b-a839-3f22-b6ab-fb24e81ee97c 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 Cf. 166-70 reference publication-7456 adlib-publication-7456 6be12311-f20a-367d-82b1-adc34e054bf0 Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897-1993 Ref. 206-207 reference publication-3367 adlib-publication-3367 d690c068-f9ae-39f7-b781-c471ea3065c7 Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Ref. 230 reference publication-2669 adlib-publication-2669 aa0d3603-2ba6-3e9d-90d9-3f0d5506093f Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ref. 104 reference publication-7461 adlib-publication-7461 097fcf79-5193-3f2c-a666-744b0d89fd6e Dictionary of Ceramic Artists reference term-42688 adlib-term-42688 4df03958-5ee6-3a50-ada9-491bb6445fdf Art Pottery reference term-108596 adlib-term-108596 a8fe6c32-868e-35f8-8db0-163f393d0df9 pomegranate literal pomegranate pomegranate

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