Potter:
Lane, David
Abington Pottery
Red stoneware vase, thrown, turned, incised and glazed.
Tall circular vase with softly rounded sides rising to a wide mouth with slightly everted neck rim, thrown from red stoneware. Abstract pattern reminiscent of large vertical leaves around the body, picked out with incisions and patches of dark blue eggshell glaze. Band around the neck and interior glazed dark mottled blue. Underside turned to slight foot-rim, undecorated.
History note: Abington Pottery
Given by the family of David Lane
Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 27 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2019-11-25) by Lane, Christy Thomas, Tamara
Production date: circa AD 2010
David Lane (1929-2019) studied at Bournemouth School of Art and with David Ballantyne and other potters. From 1959, he ran his own pottery in Cambridge, moving out to establish Abington Pottery in a grade II* listed former Medieval hall house in the village of Little Abington in 1964. His wife Erika sold the pottery’s wares at Cambridge Market for 40 years. Lane developed his own range of opaque eggshell glazes, applying thin metallic oxide washes to unfired stoneware pots, then firing at 960 degrees; the colours then suffused into the glaze during the glaze-firing in an electric kiln. This vase was given to the Museum when the pottery closed in 2019, shortly after Lane died.
Decoration
Throwing : Thrown stoneware, turned, incised and glazed.
Inscription present: monogram
Accession number: C.16-2019
Primary reference Number: 240169
Entry form number: 1391
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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