Sprig Mould

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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Artist/Maker	Wood, Enoch (maker)
Place of origin	Staffordshire (made)

Here the applied decoration is in the Neo-classical style, which was then fashionable. It was made by pressing clay into sprig-moulds, scraping the back flat and teasing out the finished sprig. This was then brushed with clay slip and applied to the pot on the point of a knife blade.

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Category	Ceramics
Object type	Sprig mould
Materials and techniques	Fired clay Clay
Brief description	Sprig-mould in fired clay, Wood & Caldwell factory ca.1790-1818.
Physical description	Sprig-mould in fired clay.
Dimensions	Maximum length: 9.8cm
Marks and inscriptions	'WOOD & CALDWELL 1818' for for Wood & Caldwell of Burslem
Gallery label	(23/05/2008) Mould for sprigged decoration Made at the factory of Wood & Caldwell, Burslem, Staffordshire, 1818 Mark: 'WOOD & CALDWELL', twice repeated, and '1818', impressed Earthenware C.158-1937 Given by Mr Stuart G. Davis
Credit line	Given by Stuart G. Davis
Summary	Here the applied decoration is in the Neo-classical style, which was then fashionable. It was made by pressing clay into sprig-moulds, scraping the back flat and teasing out the finished sprig. This was then brushed with clay slip and applied to the pot on the point of a knife blade.
Bibliographic references	Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X Young, Hilary, 'The Birth of the Ceramic Designer' in Walford, Tom and Hilary Young British Ceramic Design, 1600-2002: Papers presented at the colloquium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle, 1927-2002. 2003, p. 17, fig. 4
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.158-1937

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Record created	December 4, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71426/sprig-mould-wood-enoch/

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