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Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Vase

1912-15 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bernard Moore (maker)
Billington, Dora M (artist)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent (made)

Porcelain vase baluster shape with a short neck topped by wide flat rim. Freely painted in "rouge flambé" and yellow with dragons above swirling clouds or sea. The ground shades from dark greenish grey to pale pinkish white.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Vases
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted decoration
Porcelain
Paint
Brief description
Porcelain vase with painted decoration, made at Bernard Moore's Studio, decorated by Dora Billington, Stoke-on-Trent, England ca. 1905-1907.
Physical description
Porcelain vase baluster shape with a short neck topped by wide flat rim. Freely painted in "rouge flambé" and yellow with dragons above swirling clouds or sea. The ground shades from dark greenish grey to pale pinkish white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 45.7cm
  • Diameter: 20.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'BERNARD MOORE' and 'DMB' in monogram (Painted)
  • '1163' (Impressed)
Gallery label
Vase Workshop of Bernard Moore , Wolfe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England C.177-1984(23/05/2008)
Production
According to Cameron (1986), Billington worked for Bernard Moore in the period 1912-15. The register entry for this object records a similar vase being shown in Paris in 1914. Its date has therefore been proposed as 1912-15, rather than ca. 1905-7, as in the register. Note also that Billington was born in 1890.
Subject depicted
Dragons
Bibliographic references
  • Dawson, Aileen Bernard Moore Master Potter 1850-1935, R. Dennis, 1982, 66-69 pp. fig. 44.
  • V & A Bernard Moore Master Potter 1850-1835, 1982-1983, No.113.
  • Cameron, Elisabeth. Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London: Faber & Faber, 1986, p47.
  • Adamson, Glenn, Martina Droth and Simon Olding (ed.s) Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery. New Haven, London, 2017 p. 208, 209
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.177-1984

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Record createdNovember 14, 2007
Record URL
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