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Vase

  • Designer

    William De Morgan (1839-1917)

  • Detail

    Earthenware

    Height: 47 cm

    English (Staffordshire); the decoration English (Chelsea), circa 1872-81

  • Provenance

    […]; H. Blairman & Sons, 1990s; private collections; with H. Blairman & Sons, 2022

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    For a vase of this form see Martin Greenwood, The Designs of William De Morgan, Shepton Beuachamp: Richard Dennis, 1989, p. 227, pl. 179.

    The vase illustrated in Greenwood is now in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber; see Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, n. 226: ‘Lustre vase painted with a band of figures around the Wheel of Fortune, the reverse with a winged cherub escaping from chains, Chelsea Period (1872-81).  Hand-painted underlaze colour on moulded earthenware body.’

    A further vase from this series, from the collection of Ian and Rita Smythe, went on view at the V&A in December 2022.

    For a charger decorated with putti, from the Handley Read Collection, see Greenwood, p. 205, pl. 8.

    A charger, with a border of putti, from the collection of the Society of Antiquaries, is at Kelmscott Manor; see A.R. Dufty, et. al., Kelmscott, London: The Design Council, 1981, p. 150, cat. no. 6.