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Vitro-porcelain

Jug
ca. 1885 (made), 1877 (design registered)
Artist/Maker
George Davidson & Co. (manufacturer)
Sowerby Ellison Glassworks (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Gateshead (made)

Jug, Britain (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Geo. Davidson & Co., Teams Glass Works, 1882-1900, Circ.465-1965 .
Spill vase, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1877-1900.

Object details

Categories
Glass
Containers
Object type
Jug
Titles
  • Vitro-porcelain (manufacturer's title)
  • Patent Ivory Queen's Ware (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Press-moulded glass
Brief description
Jug, Britain (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Geo. Davidson & Co., Teams Glass Works, 1882-1900, Circ.465-1965 .
Spill vase, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1877-1900.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.0cm
  • Maximum width: 4.0cm
not recorded not recorded
Styles
Victorian
Aesthetic Movement
Marks and inscriptions
(Registration number)
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 character, we suppose they were inadmissable. Still in taste and aesthetic treatment thay rank as art goods, notwithstanding their cheapness. We may call it 'Art for the million'
Production
Davidson catalogue VA 89.M.31 p.32 no.133
Sowerby pattern bk.IX,p3 (1217)
Bibliographic reference
B. Morris, Victorian Table Glass and Ornaments, London 1978 (see Circ.611-1962)
Other numbers
  • 7672 - Glass gallery number
  • 0923 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.465-1965

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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