1592999668000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75840 1747246355677 1714398349000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75840 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75840 c7d1b4ad-fe50-3f91-b218-a82eed118022 6 reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting Applied Arts Buff stoneware, thrown, covered with beige glaze except for the base and an irregular area above it, and painted in dull red and grey, Ovoid with a short cylindrical neck and recessed base. Decorated with a geometrical pattern of diagonal wavy lines of varying widths and lengths. C.69-1982 1 accession number C.69-1982 75840 priref 75840 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75840 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75840 on base incised D.N.H. maker's mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum presumed gift, donor and date of accession unknown reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown unknown Entry date: 1982-07-19 1925 1925 1925 circa 1925 1939 1 1939 1939 1939 potter reference agent-161022 adlib-agent-161022 611a04e3-fb9e-3a6d-99de-74de2969a7e3 Harding, Deborah, N. Deborah N. Harding (1903-92) studied pottery at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Dora Billington, and subsequently at the Royal College of Art. In 1909, she had moved with her parents to a new house in Westholm Green, thus becoming one of the first settlers of the new town, Letchworth. After completing her studies in London, Harding returned to Letchworth and established a pottery in The Wynd, where she produced works that were exhibited at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, sold through the Three Shields Gallery and featured in The Studio magazine and Decorative Arts Yearbook (1930). She also showed pieces in the Paris Exhibition of 1934 and in the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition 'English Pottery Old and New' (1935). Harding made slip-decorated earthenware and stoneware with a distinct modernist aesthetic, using pale colours and simple spiral markings. In 1933, the Three Shields Gallery, London, showed a solo exhibition of her work, which included stoneware pots similar to this example. The exhibition was reviewed in The Times as follows: ‘At the Three Shields Gallery, 8, Holland Street, Kensington, there is an exhibition of new stoneware pots in light colours – ranging from white to buff or oatmeal – by Miss Deborah N. Harding. Here again the merit is in close adaptation to domestic use, while avoiding the mechanical effect of factory production. Flower contains, in one form or another, are in the majority. For added decoration Miss Harding makes very effective use of the spiral line, comparatively slow in movement and generally well related in colour to the ground.’ (‘Two Potters’ in The Times, 10 November 1933, p. 12) In 1935, Harding married John Hard and continued making pots until the outbreak of the Second World War, when The Wynd was requisitioned for the war effort. After the war she concentrated on bringing up her three children, and renovating the almost derelict Manor House in Bygrave, which she and her husband purchased in 1948. She later taught pottery at St Christopher’s School and made functional, domestic wares for her friends and family. reference term-120066 adlib-term-120066 7d68b404-6003-3715-bdce-af5ba4e8f5a3 20th Century, second quarter reference term-107139 adlib-term-107139 9fd5ef13-3709-388f-b925-702787340e32 literal England England country England reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware Height cm 20.9 reference media-46243 adlib-media-46243 51be9da8-3a28-3e01-bdd3-5df37a58d280 jpeg aa/aa9/C_69_1982_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616254115192 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_69_1982_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616254115192 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_69_1982_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616254115192 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_69_1982_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616254115192 1 image 0 media image reference media-46244 adlib-media-46244 6b980130-2583-38c0-8368-4ccf30a9896a jpeg aa/aa9/C_69_1982_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616259153546 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_69_1982_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616259153546 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_69_1982_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616259153546 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_69_1982_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616259153546 1 image 1 media image reference term-89480 adlib-term-89480 f1ea518e-351c-3f42-b2a7-db0f8559fa2c vase object name reference term-42692 adlib-term-42692 68c2b295-0e5f-3e4e-ac86-2aebb8653b91 Studio Ceramics category history note Deborah N. 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dish reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. p. 310, 1948, the potter's mark 310 reference publication-2663 adlib-publication-2663 a2faf0b6-febd-3d16-82e0-6444a2dc48e7 Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks Cf. p. 192, brief biography of the potter, and no. 267, a vase 192 reference publication-1884 adlib-publication-1884 a0a5e5b4-dfaa-3530-9af5-80212d4ee637 British Studio Pottery, the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection reference term-42692 adlib-term-42692 68c2b295-0e5f-3e4e-ac86-2aebb8653b91 Studio Ceramics

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