water bottle
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Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case 16, shelf 1
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This bottle was part of a collection made by Sir Courtenay Ilbert ( 1841-1924), who served as legal advisor in India to the Viceroy, the Ist Marquess of Ripon, 1882-1886, after which he returned to Great Britain.Part of a collection selected by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1915) for Lady Ilbert, wife of Sir Courtenay Ilbert (1841-1924), who accompanied her husband out to India in 1882 when he was appointed legal advisor to the Viceroy, Ist Marquis of Ripon, returning home in 1886. The examples were all of wares either made by Indian craftsmen working in the traditional centres of Delhi, Rampur, Khurja, Halla and Multan or of items made by the Bombay School of Art, whose ceramic output was heavily influenced by the products of these indigenous potters. The collection was formed to give a good representation of the shapes, colours and pottery techniques that were employed.
Physical description
Water-bottle of reddish earthenware, decorated with a design in white slip under a transparent copper green lead-glaze. Compressed globular body with diagonal rows of flowers and leaves.
Place of Origin
Mumbai, India (made)
Date
ca. 1885 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown (production)
Materials and Techniques
Glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 12 in maximum, Width: 7.5 in
Object history note
This bottle was part of a collection made by Sir Courtenay Ilbert ( 1841-1924), who served as legal advisor in India to the Viceroy, the Ist Marquess of Ripon, 1882-1886, after which he returned to Great Britain.Part of a collection selected by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1915) for Lady Ilbert, wife of Sir Courtenay Ilbert (1841-1924), who accompanied her husband out to India in 1882 when he was appointed legal advisor to the Viceroy, Ist Marquis of Ripon, returning home in 1886. The examples were all of wares either made by Indian craftsmen working in the traditional centres of Delhi, Rampur, Khurja, Halla and Multan or of items made by the Bombay School of Art, whose ceramic output was heavily influenced by the products of these indigenous potters. The collection was formed to give a good representation of the shapes, colours and pottery techniques that were employed.
Historical context note
The Bombay School of Art's ceramic productions were traded under the name of Wonderland Art Pottery under the direction of George Wilkins Terry, who had been appointed as its first drawing master in 1857. The pottery flourished from the mid 1870s until about 1890 when Terry retired, but continued in diminished form into the early years of the 20th century. Early wares were influenced by those manufactured in Sind as Terry set up his workshop with a Sindhi craftsman called Nur Muhammad. Soon, however, much of the decoration came to be influenced by the cave paintings at Ajanta, which had been discovered earlier in the century, and were copied by the School's students over a period lasting from 1872-1885, elements of which were adapted and used to decorate the ceramics in an attempt to encourage traditions of Indian art rather than European ones. Liberty imported some wares to sell in its Regent Street shop in London; see Stronge, Susan,'Wonderland', Ceramics: The International Journal of Ceramics and Glass, London, issue V, August 1987, pp. 48-53.
Descriptive line
Glazed earthenware bottle, Bombay School of Art, 19th century
Production Note
Bombay School of Art
Materials
Earthenware; Glaze; Ceramic
Techniques
Glazing; Modelling
Subjects depicted
Foliation
Categories
Containers; Ceramics; Earthenware; Vases
Collection code
SSEA
