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

Vase

1933 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of stoneware with mottled white matt glaze, flattened at the base of the neck with a circular expanding mouth and flat base, and showing a brown salt-glazed body at the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, matt glazed and salt glazed
Brief description
Vase of stoneware with mottled white matt glaze, flattened at the base of the neck with a circular expanding mouth and flat base, and showing a brown salt-glazed body at the rim, designed and made by Doris Johnson at Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, Lambeth, 1933.
Physical description
Vase of stoneware with mottled white matt glaze, flattened at the base of the neck with a circular expanding mouth and flat base, and showing a brown salt-glazed body at the rim.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Royal Doulton' device and '5181' [impressed]
Gallery label
Vase Doris Johnson, made by Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, England, C.492-1934 Given by Doulton and Co. via the British Institute of Industrial Art(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Given by the Secretary of the British Institute of Industrial Art
Production
Made at Lambeth Art Pottery
Bibliographic reference
Hawkins, Jennifer and Marianne Hollis (ed), Thirties: British art and design before the war London, Arts Council, 1979 pp.154
Collection
Accession number
C.492-1934

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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