1592999760000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-134026 1747160536159 1714468076000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-134026 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/134026 d5ae6e19-7f4e-35c7-9357-96bdbcb3191a 6 reference agent-133204 adlib-agent-133204 6a2f058d-9a71-326f-a47b-829991531bde Taylor, Edward reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware reference term-110727 adlib-term-110727 ebeafa07-8aa4-35ee-93de-94d5a21e0274 lustreware reference term-42688 adlib-term-42688 4df03958-5ee6-3a50-ada9-491bb6445fdf Art Pottery lustrous turquoise reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze Decoration Diameter cm 5.8 Base Surface reference term-122641 adlib-term-122641 d5fb75d8-097d-3fd7-8e70-87e9d96d77f7 glazing Applied Arts 2013 2013 2013-04-02 Stoneware vase with a lustrous turquoise glaze Thrown white stoneware, with a cloudy, iridescent turquoise glaze completely covering the exterior and inside of the neck. The vase is tall and slim and stands on a circular projecting foot. The sides curve outwards very slightly and then inwards to the rounded shoulder from which rises a short, narrow neck with an everted rim. The underside is flat and glazed, with a slightly raised, unglazed, foot-rim. There are three spur marks just inside the rim. C.41-2006 1 accession number C.41-2006 134026 priref 134026 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/134026 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/134026 ENGLAND is below and to the right of RUSKIN on base impressed separately RUSKIN ENGLAND factory mark on base, below ENGLAND impressed 1924 date mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by S.V. Finn reference agent-173670 adlib-agent-173670 77aeb424-9839-3473-933e-0603f1a5ee73 Finn, S.V. 2006 2006 2006 bequeathed Entry date: 2006-10-09 1924 CE 1924 (marked) 1924 factory reference agent-173671 adlib-agent-173671 d5ffd827-8ddc-3fd9-997e-5d95349fa25c Ruskin Pottery maker reference agent-174210 adlib-agent-174210 1b1e607a-e3cb-304e-b32e-7353cd6b9ef3 Taylor, William Howson Early examples of Ruskin ware were all individual art pieces but, by July 1915, ‘Pottery Gazette’ notes that ‘Mr Taylor has commercialised many of his productions, and brought some really artistic conceptions within the reach of every class of people able to appreciate pottery that is soulful’. The unusual shape of this vase, however, suggests it is an individual piece. William Howson Taylor (1876-1935) came from a Staffordshire potting family and set up his pottery c.1898 with his father, Edward, a well known art educator and Principal of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Active supporters of the Arts & Crafts movement, the Taylors were friends of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and admirers of Ruskin. Wares were known as ‘Ruskin Pottery’ from c.1903 until 1933 (with the Ruskin family’s agreement only from 1906), and first shown at the 1903 Arts & Crafts Exhibition. Later they were exhibited widely, from Louisiana to Milan to Christ Church, New Zealand, and received many prizes including the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition in Brussels, in 1910. . A staff of around 20 included William Forrester, trained at Ruskin as a thrower, and from 1898-1912, Emily Boswell (decorator). Taylor favoured local clays and became known for his experimental lustre, flambé and soufflé glazes, all of which were leadless. His fascination with the effects of glazes on simple oriental-shaped pots is apparent in this example. A booklet he published in 1924 lists thirteen lustre colours, including turquoise; and a similar glaze to this one is shown in the brochure for the 1924 Wembley Exhibition, at which the Ruskin Pottery featured ‘new footed shapes and mottled lustre effects’. reference term-109008 adlib-term-109008 841b18bd-944d-3c9c-8d39-bdaabbcc28e1 20th Century, Early reference term-107684 adlib-term-107684 d54f530a-3bb0-3a32-a207-4cf77fb9ccf8 George V reference term-121778 adlib-term-121778 b761aa52-3446-3ea6-b3f7-ef9bc04dc048 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Smethwick reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware Height cm 20.9 Width cm 6.7 reference term-89480 adlib-term-89480 f1ea518e-351c-3f42-b2a7-db0f8559fa2c vase history note Unknown before testator, Hove, Sussex 1 same maker reference object-134027 adlib-object-134027 374dba82-0a2f-368c-9444-ad4089173dc4

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bowl reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Cf. p.73 (bottom): a vase with similar turquoise glaze shown at the 1924 Wembley Exhibition; pp.78 (top),95 (top left): vase and scent bottle with very similar glaze, c.1918; p. 72,81, 1913 catalogue introduction including description of Ruskijn soufflé, lustre and flambé wares and statement of the business’s experimental principles. 72,73,78,81,95 reference publication-7566 adlib-publication-7566 d8549e2b-7be7-3815-8038-87dd8d256bcc Ruskin Pottery: the pottery of Edward Richard Taylor and William Howson Taylor, 1898-1935 Cf. examples of Ruskin ware and extensive notes on William Howson Taylor, including his own descriptions of glaze types, published in 1917 and 1924; also bibliography. 254-61 reference publication-3367 adlib-publication-3367 d690c068-f9ae-39f7-b781-c471ea3065c7 Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Ref. William Howson Taylor; bibliographical references provided on p. 261. 146 reference publication-7461 adlib-publication-7461 097fcf79-5193-3f2c-a666-744b0d89fd6e Dictionary of Ceramic Artists Ref. 325 reference publication-2669 adlib-publication-2669 aa0d3603-2ba6-3e9d-90d9-3f0d5506093f Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries reference term-12611 adlib-term-12611 834b65f7-cfad-3dec-bca8-253a9e8b4281 Arts and Crafts (movement)

reference term-89480 adlib-term-89480 f1ea518e-351c-3f42-b2a7-db0f8559fa2c vase

vase thrown white stoneware, coated with a cloudy, lustrous glaze. reference term-120082 adlib-term-120082 ea83ed85-6b07-3e7e-83fc-440cfda22f7e throwing object OBJECT