Patent Ivory Queens Ware
Vase
1877 (design registered)
1877 (design registered)
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| Place of origin |
Vase, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1877-1900
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Press-moulded glass |
| Brief description | Vase, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1877-1900 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Diamond registration mark for |
| 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 popular 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 | Given by Hugh Wakefield |
| Production | Sowerby's pattern bk. IX, p.3(1217) |
| Other number | 7656 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | CIRC.307-1967 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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