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Vase
Maker:
Iceni Pottery
Designer:
Cowlishaw, William Harrison
((probably))
Thown and glazed vase.
Ovoid, with slightly everted neck, standing on thin, wide foot-ring. The lower part of the body is covered with a mottled green glaze, which has run vertically, suggesting feathers. Above is a streaky, purplish glaze, applied after the green and running over it, which continues inside the neck. The upper glaze is thick and very finely bubbled, giving a lustrous effect. The underside is slightly recessed and glazed with the green mottle.
History note: Mr Robert Garnett, brother-in-law to William Harrison Cowlishaw (1870-1957), the proprietor of the pottery, by whom given to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.2 cm
Height: 7.25 in
Width: 15.2 cm
Width: 6 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
20th Century, Early
Production date:
circa
AD 1910
The Iceni Pottery was founded and run by the architect William Harrison Cowlishaw (1870-1957) from 1907 until 1914, when the outbreak of war caused the pottery to close. A member of the Art Workers’ Guild, Cowlishaw designed most of the wares, including all 50 of the pots exhibited at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition of 1912; he also designed needlework and illuminated manuscripts. Cowlishaw was interested in imitating Oriental glazes, as on this vase, and Iceni wares are sometimes lustred; the use of leadless glazes was highlighted in the use of a stamp which read ‘Iceni Leadless Letchworth’ (though not used here). Iceni vases and tiles are hand-made; many were originally sold at ‘The Pottery Shop’ on Leys Avenue, Letchworth.
Art Pottery
Arts and Crafts (movement)
(probably)
Stoneware
pinky-purple, and mottled blue-green leadless glaze
Coloured glaze ware
Throwing
: Thrown and twice glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.28-1928
Primary reference Number: 74093
Old object number: 307
Old object number: C.132-1928
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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