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Vase

Vase

  • Place of origin:

    Lambeth, England (made)

  • Date:

    1879 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Capes, Mary (decorator)
    Doulton Ceramic Factory (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Earthenware, painted

  • Credit Line:

    Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street

  • Museum number:

    3805-1901

  • Gallery location:

    British Galleries, room 125f, case 1

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Object Type
This vase, although functional, was made mainly for show. The overall decoration, in a comparatively restrained 'art' style, was made to appeal to the widest possible, yet fashion-conscious, home-owning market.

Design & Designing
The production of earthenware with painted pictorial decoration was developed at the Lambeth factory of Doulton & Co. around 1872. Five years earlier in the international exhibition, Paris, similar wares by the French potter Joseph-Théodore Deck (1823-1891) and Wedgwood wares painted by Emile Lessore had been exhibited, and in 1871 Minton's had opened their Art Pottery studio, specialising in painted wares, in Kensington Gore, London. Doulton's decided to follow this new fashion with the production of 'Lambeth faience'.

People
Mary Capes was one of the many decorating artists who worked for the studio production. Between about 1876 and 1883 she was a faience designer and painter and she also developed a technique for painting in enamel colours on stoneware.

Physical description

Vase of earthenware. Elongated ovoid body, spreading foot, narrow neck, funnel-shaped mouth. The body is painted with branches of orange-trees in colours in three oval panels, the remaining surface being decorated with leafy scrollwork in orange-yellow on a lighter yellow ground.

Place of Origin

Lambeth, England (made)

Date

1879 (made)

Artist/maker

Capes, Mary (decorator)
Doulton Ceramic Factory (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Earthenware, painted

Marks and inscriptions

DOULTON LAMBETH FAIENCE' and four inerlaced D's within a circle and '1879'
'MC' in monogram and 'M. Capes'
'306'

Dimensions

Height: 40.7 cm, Width: 9.9 cm maximum, Diameter: 8.4 cm base

Descriptive line

Vase of earthenware, painted in colours, decorated by Mary Capes, made by Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, 1879

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Eyles, Desmond. The Doulton Lambeth wares London: Hutchinson, 1975, pl. 158

Labels and date

British Galleries:
As the trend to create individual, artistic interiors developed, many large-scale manufacturers of tiles and sanitary ware established studios which produced more decorative wares for the home, known as 'art pottery'. Doulton & Co. was one of the first to establish a studio, employing decorators trained at the new school of art in Lambeth. [27/03/2003]
Vase
Decorated by Mary Capes, made by Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, England, dated 1879

3805-1901 [23/05/2008]

Production Note

Made at Lambeth Art Pottery.

Materials

Earthenware

Techniques

Painted

Subjects depicted

Trees; Oranges

Categories

Ceramics; British Galleries; Art Pottery

Collection code

CER

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