Vase
ca. 1959 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Henry Hammond studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1934 to 1938, where he was a student of William Staite Murray. Like Staite Murray, Hammond adopted a painterly approach to surface decoration, which he applied to stoneware pots. After the end of the Second World War he made slipware exclusively for a several years, but returned to the production of stoneware in the 1950s.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, with painted decoration in brown on an oatmeal-coloured glaze |
| Brief description | Tall vase painted with cow parsley, Henry Hammond, ca. 1959. |
| Physical description | Tall vase painted with naturalistic stems of cow-parsley in brown on an oatmeal ground. |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'HH' in monogram, impressed |
| Object history | Acquisition details: Primavera, London RF number: 59/1920 |
| Summary | Henry Hammond studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1934 to 1938, where he was a student of William Staite Murray. Like Staite Murray, Hammond adopted a painterly approach to surface decoration, which he applied to stoneware pots. After the end of the Second World War he made slipware exclusively for a several years, but returned to the production of stoneware in the 1950s. |
| Bibliographic reference | Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.129-1959 |
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| Record created | January 14, 2000 |
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