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Description: | Globular vase, white earthenware, decorated with fish swimming amongst weeds, in silver and copper lustre over a streaked lustrous purple glaze.Thickly potted of globular shape tapering to flared foot, sloping shoulder and wide neck with thick everted rim. Decorated with patches of streaky brown and purple glaze, iridescent in places. Painted in silver lustre with three pairs of overlapping fish, each with copper lustre eyes and fins. In two of these pairs, the furthermost fish is a paler purplish lustre, nearmost a bright silver lustre. Nine thick weeds rise from rocky river bed round base in three pairs and three single stems, six in silver lustre, three in patchy copper lustre. Silver and copper bubbles intermingle with broad fronds of weeds round shoulder. Streaked iridescent silver lustre neck rim, blue interior.
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: thrown
Material: coloured glazes
Material: lustreware
Material: silver lustre
Material: copper lustre
Material: reduction-fired
vase by Pilkington's Tiles Group Plc, Richard Joyce, 1912, (1920.144H). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.1590 | Go to resource |
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