Tall vase
Pottery:
Della Robbia Pottery
Designer:
Collis, Charles
Sgaffito artist:
E LL
Decorator:
Russell, Gertrude
Thrown terracotta, slip coated and decorated with sgraffito, underglaze colours and clear lead glaze.
Red earthenware vase of elegant bulbous shape tapering to tall narrow neck, joined by a rounded bulge. Decorated with cream slip and a flowing sgraffito design of leaves and dangling flowers, coloured with ochre, green and turquoise on a manganese brown ground and clear glazed. Underside slip-coated and glazed within a slightly raised foot-rim.
History note: Lent by Rita Smythe, 2018
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 38 cm
Width: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
Production date: circa AD 1904
Charles Collis (1878-1918 joined Della Robbia circa 1895, then gained experience at Doulton Burslem, and elsewhere. He returned in 1902 and again in 1905. Collis’s designs were used by others and here the sgaffito decoration seems to be by ‘ELL’ (as yet unidentified), who worked at the pottery c.1900-1904, and painting by Gertrude Russell, who joined in late 1903.
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.
Throwing
: Thrown, slip coated, sgraffito and coloured glazes.
Painting
Inscription present: in a circle
Accession number: C.30-2023
Primary reference Number: 239666
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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