Arts and Crafts - 19th June 2019

Lot 171

A tall Ruskin Pottery high-fired stoneware vase by William Howson Taylor

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £2400

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Description

A tall Ruskin Pottery high-fired stoneware vase by William Howson Taylor, shouldered form with tall cylindrical neck and everted top rim, covered in a running sang de boeuf glaze highlighted in sky blue on a mottled ground impressed marks, collection paper labels, 29cm. high

Exhibited

Taylor Made Exhibition, Birmingham Art Gallery, 1976, catalogue number 20.

Literature

Paul Atterbury & John Henson Ruskin Pottery, Baxendale Press, page 58 for a comparable example of this shape, dated 1909, illustrated.

Provenance

A & B Forrester Collection.

Ferneyhough Collection.

The Albert E Wade Collection, Sotheby's London, 2002, lot 397.

Private collection of Ruskin Pottery.