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Jar and cover

Ref: 1771
  • Maker / Retailer

    Manufactured by the Ruskin Pottery (founded 1898)

    Silver mounts made for Liberty & Co. (1875-present)

  • Detail

    Glazed earthenware, enamel, turquoises and silver

    Height: 14 cm

    English (Birmingham), 1900

  • Marks

    ‘Taylor’, ‘T88’ and 10 (under base of pot)

    Hall marks for Liberty & Co, date letter for 1900 (on the lid)

  • Provenance

    […]; Christie’s (London), 15 May 2002, lot 28; with John Jesse; private collection

  • Notes

    A closely related jar and cover, with silver foot, is currently for sale with the Peartree Collection.  Anthony Bernbaum suggests that the ‘silver design is almost certainly by Oliver Baker. The link between Baker and the Ruskin factory, both based in Birmingham, was most likely through William Rabone Haseler, owner of the firm William Hair Haseler who made all Liberty’s Cymric silver. He was also President of The Birmingham School of Art of which Edward Richard Taylor, founder of the Ruskin factory, was headmaster.’