Vase
ca. 1905 (made)
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Object Type
This vase is a purely decorative object which would impress as evidence of the owner's knowledgeable and artistic taste. In this English version lizards and leaves replace the dragons, peonies, clouds and masks favoured on Chinese ceramics. The green and yellow drip glazes which appeared in Tang ceramics during the period 700-775CE are here translated into Doulton's salt-glazed stoneware. The basic form is a standard Doulton shape, albeit in Chinese style; Francis C. Pope modelled the lizards and leaves.As a result the vase could be marketed as a unique art work.
Design & Designing
Doulton & Co. was established in 1854 by Henry Doulton (1820-1897) in the traditionally stoneware-manufacturing area of Lambeth, London. After reluctantly agreeing to collaborate with the nearby Lambeth School of Art, he rapidly saw the benefits of a serious interest in the history of ceramics and in developing an artistic range of wares. The earliest production was shown with great success in the international exhibition, Paris, in 1867. Pope was one of the School of Art students employed in Doulton's art studio.
This vase is a purely decorative object which would impress as evidence of the owner's knowledgeable and artistic taste. In this English version lizards and leaves replace the dragons, peonies, clouds and masks favoured on Chinese ceramics. The green and yellow drip glazes which appeared in Tang ceramics during the period 700-775CE are here translated into Doulton's salt-glazed stoneware. The basic form is a standard Doulton shape, albeit in Chinese style; Francis C. Pope modelled the lizards and leaves.As a result the vase could be marketed as a unique art work.
Design & Designing
Doulton & Co. was established in 1854 by Henry Doulton (1820-1897) in the traditionally stoneware-manufacturing area of Lambeth, London. After reluctantly agreeing to collaborate with the nearby Lambeth School of Art, he rapidly saw the benefits of a serious interest in the history of ceramics and in developing an artistic range of wares. The earliest production was shown with great success in the international exhibition, Paris, in 1867. Pope was one of the School of Art students employed in Doulton's art studio.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, salt-glazed |
| Brief description | English vase |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
CHINESE AND ENGLISH VASE DECORATION Both the form of the blue Chinese vase with its coiled dragon applied around the neck, and the colour-splashed glaze, are similar to ancient styles of Chinese ceramics. The blue vase was made at kilns near Canton, Guangzhou, that supplied many wares for overseas markets owing to their geographical closeness to the port of Hong Kong. The designer at the Doulton art pottery studio in London may have known of similar examples when he made the brown vase.(27/03/2003) |
| Object history | Made by Doulton & Co., 'art pottery' in Lambeth, London; decorated by Francis C. Pope (born about 1873, died in 1923) |
| Summary | Object Type This vase is a purely decorative object which would impress as evidence of the owner's knowledgeable and artistic taste. In this English version lizards and leaves replace the dragons, peonies, clouds and masks favoured on Chinese ceramics. The green and yellow drip glazes which appeared in Tang ceramics during the period 700-775CE are here translated into Doulton's salt-glazed stoneware. The basic form is a standard Doulton shape, albeit in Chinese style; Francis C. Pope modelled the lizards and leaves.As a result the vase could be marketed as a unique art work. Design & Designing Doulton & Co. was established in 1854 by Henry Doulton (1820-1897) in the traditionally stoneware-manufacturing area of Lambeth, London. After reluctantly agreeing to collaborate with the nearby Lambeth School of Art, he rapidly saw the benefits of a serious interest in the history of ceramics and in developing an artistic range of wares. The earliest production was shown with great success in the international exhibition, Paris, in 1867. Pope was one of the School of Art students employed in Doulton's art studio. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.135-1952 |
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| Record created | July 1, 1999 |
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