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Patent Ivory Queens Ware: Vitro-porcelain

Dish
1879 (design registered)
Artist/Maker
Sowerby Ellison Glassworks (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Gateshead (made)

Pressed opaque glass dish with two handles.

Object details

Object type
Dish
TitlePatent Ivory Queens Ware: Vitro-porcelain (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
press moulded
Brief description
Dish, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1879-1900, C.155-1983 .
Physical description
Pressed opaque glass dish with two handles.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.0cm
  • Greatest width width: 21.5cm
Styles
VICTORIAN
AESTHETIC
Marks and inscriptions
Diamond registration mark for 2/1879 (Diamond registration mark)
Gallery label
Sowerby's called this cream-coloured glass 'Patent Ivory Queen's ware', probably in reference to Wedgwood's 18thC cream-coloured earthenware 'Queen's Ware'. Almost all Sowerby's production in this glass, which was patented in 1879, was in the art-style known as 'Aesthetic'. In 1884 the Pottery Gazette reviewed the International Health Exhibition saying that 'their fancy glass should have been in the art gallery, but being of such a cheap and poplular nature, we suppose they were inadmissable. Still in taste and aesthetic treatment they rank as art goods, notwithstanding their cheapness. we may call it 'Art for the million'
Credit line
Gift of M. J Franklin
Production
Sowerby's pattern bk.IX, p.7 (1376)
Bibliographic reference
See Circ.611-1962
Other number
7658 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.155-1983

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O2758/patent-ivory-queens-ware-vitro-dish-sowerby-ellison-glassworks/
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