Cow or Cattle Vase: C.19-1947

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Cow or Cattle Vase

Maker(s)

Entities

Description

Buff stoneware with ovoidal body tapering towards the base, sloping shoulders, and a tapering cylindrical neck with slightly everted rim. Covered all over, except for the lowest part of the body and base, with a grey-green to dark-brown speckled glaze, with brush-stroke decoration in chestnut-brown of cattle, with a geometrical pattern around the neck. The body has bubbled in several places.

Legal notes

Given by the Very Rev. E. Milner-White, MA, DSO

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 28.4 cm
Height: 46.7 cm

Place(s) associated

London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1947) by Milner-White, Eric

Dating

20th Century
Production date: AD 1928 : Recorded as having been made on 3 November 1928

Note

This vase was exhibited by Staite Murray at a solo exhibition of his work at Paterson's Gallery, London, in November 1928. Reviewing the exhibition in The Times, a critic refers to this vase as follows: '...[another vase] is decorated with a summary brush drawing of the bird, but it is not more than a comment on what is already felt in the movement of the shape as compared with that of the other. Other examples of this pointing of a formal tendency inherent in the whole shape, colour, and surface of the piece are "Cow" - which says "Moo!" as plainly as a pot can speak - " 'Stoneware Pottery' in The Times, 3 November 1928, p. 17.