Image:Dellarobbia.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image
File history
File links

Size of this preview: 442 × 599 pixels
Full resolution‎ (475 × 644 pixels, file size: 45 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

[edit] Summary

Vase, 1894-1906, Della Robbia Pottery V&A Museum no. CIRC.201-1961

Techniques - Earthenware, with sgraffito and painted decoration

Place - Merseyside, England

Dimensions - Height 29.8 cm Diameter 21.6 cm

Object Type - Although functional as a holder for flowers, this vase was probably intended for show. This classical shape, with raised handles in the form of coiled snakes, is modelled on 16th-century Italian examples. Design in the Renaissance Revival style was increasingly popular during the mid-19th century, partly through the influence of design schools such as the one at South Kensington. A comparatively small pottery, using inexpensive earthenware, the Della Robbia Pottery was nevertheless ambitious and the wares reflected the owner's interests and his friendships with some of the key people in the Arts and Crafts world, such as William Morris (1834-1896), A. H. Mackmurdo (1851-1942), William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) and Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893).

People - Harold Steward Rathbone (1858-1929) was a painter, designer and poet. He founded the Della Robbia Pottery at Birkenhead in 1894, with the sculptor Conrad Dressler (1856-1940). Family connections with the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool brought Rathbone into contact with leading painters of the day. The Unitarian Rathbone household was described as 'a hotbed of social and political reform'. Rathbone travelled extensively in Europe and studied at the Slade School of Art and in Paris. He was an avid collector of paintings, pottery and manuscripts and in the 1870s was studying Renaissance sculpture in the South Kensington Museum. All of these interest formed the background to production at the Della Robbia Pottery.

Source: http://images.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/page/Home.html

[edit] Licensing

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:23, 4 January 2008	475×644 (45 KB)	VAwebteam (Talk \| contribs)	(Vase, 1894-1906, Della Robbia Pottery V&A Museum no. CIRC.201-1961 Techniques - Earthenware, with sgraffito and painted decoration Place - Merseyside, England Dimensions - Height 29.8 cm Diameter 21.6 cm Object Type - Although functional as a holder )