IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 127133 accession number: C.47-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware vase, decorated in ruby lustre on a cream ground. The low-swelling body is shaped as a galley; its prow rises up as the arched head of a swan, while the stern curves over in the form of a fish tail. The sides of the galley are decorated on one side with two swimming dolphins, and on the other with a mermaid and an anchor. On the upper body of the vase are the painted figures of two sailors, one on each side, one rowing, the other accompanied by a dog and pulling up an anchor chain. The body rises into a tall, concave neck, which opens to a broad, everted rim; neck and rim are painted with vertical stripes and the inside of the neck is red lustre. The prow and stern of the galley rest on either side of the neck, forming handles. The underside is flat and fully decorated, with four wavy circles around Crane’s large monogram, crossed by three straight lines which curve up to the prow and stern. The vase is heavy for its size. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/127133 PEOPLE ------------------- Art Workers' Guild Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society SUBJECTS ------------------- swan sailors dolphin boat swan sailors dolphin boat TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lustreware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1889 - 1901 creation date earliest: 1889 creation date latest: 1901 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Crane, Walter maker: Maw & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 20 dimension: Depth units: in value: 7.875 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 9.125 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Width units: in value: 9.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection Work of Walter Crane Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain European Ceramics Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Walter Crane Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ---