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Taurus the Bull
Factory:
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Modeller:
Machin, Arnold
Creamware (Queen's ware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel. The stylised bull stands on all four feet with its head lowered and its tail waving against its left hind quarter. The body is scattered with vignettes of the zodiac signs and symbols in pink and brown or yellow and brown with grey backgrounds, interspersed with brown and yellow stars. The details of the bull's head and tail are painted in dark brown enamel, and round each foot is a band with a row of groups of three short strokes above it.
History note: Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mr Martyn Edgell), Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 16.2 cm
Length: 40.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2000-05-08) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
20th Century, Mid#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1955
Designed and modelled by Arnold Machin, OBE, ARCA (1911-99 ) c. 1945-6. Wedgwood exhibited a Taurus the Bull Figure at the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition in 1946. An example was displayed in the ‘Homes and Gardens’ pavilion at the Festival of Britain in 1951, in a modern sitting room for a farmer and his wife.
Multicoloured lithograph or 'Decal' (from decalomania) decoration was first used by Wedgwood in 1940 on a mug designed by Ravilious to commemorate the move of the earthenware section to Barlaston, and in 1944 for 'Charnwood' design on bone china tableware, see Documentation, Reilly, 1989. It had been used since the end of the nineteenth century elsewhere in the Potteries.
Decoration composed of enamel ( dark brown)
leadless ?
Clear glaze
Cream-coloured earthenware
Slip casting : Creamware (Queensware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel
Accession number: C.12-2000
Primary reference Number: 12091
Entry form number: 127
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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