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Vase: C.24-1972

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Decorator: Omega Workshops

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in orange, green and black enamels. Rectangular, slightly flaring to flat shoulders with a narrow cylindrical neck and everted mouth. Decorated with crude vertically-striped pattern in orange, green and black enamels. The inside of the neck is crudely painted with orange enamel, and the rest of the interior is undecorated. The enamels have bubbled and flaked off in places from the body

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Mrs M.E.L. Brownlow

Measurements and weight

Height: 23 cm
Width: 9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1972) by Brownlow, M. E. L., Mrs

Dating

20th Century, Early
George V
Circa 1913 - 1920

Note

The Omega Workshops were established by Roger Fry in London in 1913. Artists such as Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell decorated ceramics, but Fry insisted on the anonymity of the artist. This vase has an imported, industrially-produced body, and the condition of the enamels are an indication of the inexperience of the painter as a decorator of porcelain.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( orange, green, and black)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: Greek letter omega in square

  • Text: Ώ
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Painted in orange enamel
  • Type: Maker's mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.24-1972
Primary reference Number: 73484

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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