Patent Ivory Queen's Ware

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Artist/Maker	Sowerby Ellison Glassworks (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Gateshead (made)

Bowl, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1879-1900

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Category	Glass
Object type	Bowl
Titles	Patent Ivory Queen's Ware (manufacturer's title) Vitro-porcelain (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques	Press-moulded glass
Brief description	Bowl, England (Gateshead-on-Tyne), made by Sowerby & Co., Ellison Glass Works, 1879-1900
Dimensions	Height: 13.0cm Maximum width: 19.3cm
Styles	Victorian Aesthetic Movement
Marks and inscriptions	Diamond registration mark for 06/1879
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 they rank as art goods, notwithstanding their cheapness. We may call it 'Art for the million'.
Production	Sowerby's pattern bk. IX, p.8 (1407)
Bibliographic reference	B. Morris, Victorian Table Glass and Ornaments, London 1978; pl.147 (see Circ 611-1962)
Other number	7657 - Glass gallery number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	CIRC.580-1968

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7030/patent-ivory-queens-ware-bowl-sowerby-ellison-glassworks/

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