Two handled vase
Pottery:
Della Robbia Pottery
Decorator:
Fogo, John
Thrown terracotta, turned, slip coated and decorated with sgraffito, underglaze colours and clear lead glaze.
Small bulbous vase with narrow base, narrow everted neck and two loop handles laid onto the shoulder. Thrown from red clay, slip-coated and decorated with sgraffito and coloured glazes, with a leaf/seed-pod design in brown-black and cream, tinged with pink, yellow and aqueous green. The same green on handles and neck. Underside slip-coated and clear glazed with a slightly raised foot-rim.
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Diameter: 13.2 cm
Height: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
19th Century, Late#
1901
CE
-
1905
CE
The Della Robbia Pottery, founded by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler. From 1894 until closure in 1906 it produced a range of decorative ceramics in Art Nouveau style and influenced by 15th and 16th century Italian ceramics. Following the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, pieces were hand thrown and decorated and individual decorators encouraged to mark their work. Typically, designs were set out in sgraffito over white slip and coloured with special fluid colours, formed from pigments mixed with water and gum arabic, which blended with the glaze to give exceptionally bright hues. John Fogo (1885-1980) worked at Della Robbia from 1901-5, leaving to become a marine engineer at Laird’s shipyard.
Decoration
Decortation
Throwing : Thrown terracotta, slip coated. underglaze colours, clear lead glaze.
Inscription present: Della Robbia ship mark
Inscription present: underlined
Accession number: C.33-2023
Primary reference Number: 226552
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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