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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Vase

1874 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of buff coloured stoneware, with incised decoration, and painted with brown and shades of blue enamel, partly picked out with applied beads of white slip. Ovoid body with an expanding mouth. Decorated with conventional leaves in greyish-blue, the midribs are marked with white beads, on a striped blue ground. Round the mouth is a brown band.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with incised decoration, painted with enamels, and with applied beads of white slip
Brief description
Vase of buff coloured stoneware painted with enamels, and with applied beads of white slip, decorated by Emily J. Edwards, Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, 1874.
Physical description
Vase of buff coloured stoneware, with incised decoration, and painted with brown and shades of blue enamel, partly picked out with applied beads of white slip. Ovoid body with an expanding mouth. Decorated with conventional leaves in greyish-blue, the midribs are marked with white beads, on a striped blue ground. Round the mouth is a brown band.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.2cm
  • Diameter: 9.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'DOULTON LAMBETH 1874' (Impressed within an oval medallion)
  • 'E J E' (Monogram of the decorator, incised)
  • 'G' (Impressed)
  • '13' (Incised)
Gallery label
Vase Emily. J. Edwards, made by Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, England, 3791-1901(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Production
Made at Lambeth Art Pottery.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
3791-1901

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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