Arts & Crafts - 18th June 2014
Lot 211
A large sunflower pottery ginger jar and cover designed by Sir Edmund Elton
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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Description
A large sunflower pottery ginger jar and cover designed by Sir Edmund Elton, shouldered form, streaked blue and red ground, with applied band of red lustre decoration, the flat-topped cover with simple flower finial, painted Elton mark,
Literature
Malcolm Haslam Elton Ware Richard Dennis Publication page 33 plate 17 for a comparable example. Elton began to experiment with the use of lustre glazes circa 1902, the first examples using it as an additional background glaze