Bowl with mottled blue glaze
Factory:
Ruskin Pottery
Maker:
Taylor, William Howson
Stoneware bowl with matt blue and brown glaze.
Thrown white stoneware, circular, with deep sloping sides. Towards the base the sides curve inwards towards a raised foot-ring. The whole surface is coated with matt glazes of mottled blue and pale-blue/turquoise over mottled brown. The centre is mainly deep blue and brown, the upper surfaces mainly blues with brown specks, and the underside more thinly glazed with the brown dominant.
History note: Unknown before testator, Hove, Sussex
Bequeathed by S.V. Finn
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Diameter: 9.125 in
Height: 8.5 cm
Height: 3.375 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2006) by Finn, S.V.
20th Century, Early
George V
Production date:
AD 1927
: dated
Howson Taylor favoured local clays and became known for his experimental lustre, flambé and soufflé glazes, all of which were leadless. By1927 the market for lusterware was waning and demand shifting to simpler styles, and Ruskin introduced a range of new matt, semi-matt and crystalline glazes. The Pottery was able to sell these wares at lower prices, as they generally needed only two firings compared to the five often used for lustred pieces, and thus helped a move into the domestic market. On 29th July 1930, the Birmingham Gazette reported ‘Mr Howson Taylor carried out no less than 1,500 experiments to obtain new and delicate shades of colouring […] each piece has a dominant note of broken colour, and these harmonise with home furnishings and costume’.
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.
Whoel composed of glaze ( mottled blue, pale blue, and brown)
Throwing
: White stoneware glazed with blue, pale blue, and brown
Glazing
Inscription present: ENGLAND is smaller and above RUSKIN
Accession number: C.42-2006
Primary reference Number: 134027
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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