Vase
1888-1898 (made)
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Vase of earthenware with a lustre glaze. Inverted pear-shaped with a cup-shaped mouth. Painted with five stylised peacocks and plants in green-silver lustre touched with red against a dark blue background. The neck is decorated with a running foliated scroll between dotted bands in red against a green-silver lustre ground. The inside is covered with a copper lustre.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with a lustre glaze and painted |
| Brief description | Vase of earthenware with a lustre glaze, William Frend De Morgan, made at Sands End, Fulham, 1888-1898. |
| Physical description | Vase of earthenware with a lustre glaze. Inverted pear-shaped with a cup-shaped mouth. Painted with five stylised peacocks and plants in green-silver lustre touched with red against a dark blue background. The neck is decorated with a running foliated scroll between dotted bands in red against a green-silver lustre ground. The inside is covered with a copper lustre. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'W. DE MORGAN & CO. / SANDS END POTTERY' [arranged in a circle inside a ring of dots enclosing a pair of wings] (Impressed) |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mrs William De Morgan |
| Production | Made at Sands End, Fulham |
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| Bibliographic reference | Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
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| Accession number | C.414-1919 |
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| Record created | December 19, 2003 |
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