Two-handled vase
Pottery:
William De Morgan & Co.
Painter:
Porter, Edward
Earthenware, washed with white slip, and painted underglaze.
Urn shaped vase with two handles on the shoulder and everted neck, slip-coated and painted in blue, turquoise, two shades of green, and shades of purple underglaze. On the body, birds amongs sprays of flowers and foliage on a white ground; on the neck, turquoise triangles and green squiggles; interior of neck and handles turquoise, the latter with a longitudinal blue wavy line. Underside flat and unglazed.
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 26 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
Circa
1882
CE
-
1888
CE
William Frend De Morgan (1839-1917), now widely regarded as the most important ceramicist of the Arts & Crafts movement, also worked in stained glass and became a successful novelist. The son of a non-conformist mathematics professor, he became a close friend of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and married the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn Pickering (1855-1919), in 1887. As a ceramicist, De Morgan was primarily a designer/decorator and chemist, working on bought-in blanks or pots thrown to his design. He experimented widely with techniques and glazes, re-discovering methods for making and applying lustres and the colours of Persian and Iznik pottery and using them for a range of complex fantasy designs featuring ships, birds, flora and animals. De Morgan was based at Merton Abbey (next door to Morris’s factory) from 1882-8.
Decoration
composed of
underglaze colours
glaze
Base
Diameter 7 cm
Visible Surfaces
Inscription present: around edge of oval
Inscription present: E is slightly above the P
Accession number: C.55-2023
Primary reference Number: 226594
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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