A Linthorpe Pottery vase

Name: A Linthorpe Pottery Vase
SKU: as160a664
Price: 125.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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A vase made by the Linthorpe Pottery in Middlesborough in the 1880's probably to a design by Christopher Dresser.
The vase is in very good condition, it is 21 cm high and 11 cm in diameter.
The Linthorpe Art Pottery was launched in August 1879, on the site occupied by the Sun Brick Works in Linthorpe Village, Middlesbrough, Teesside. This venture was the result of the landowner, John Harrison meeting Dr. Christopher Dresser, an
orientalist, architect and peripatetic lecturer, and one of the foremost influences in introducing oriental design into English fabrics, wall hangings, silver, glass and ceramics. Dr. Dresser’s intention was that the pottery should produce ware not
previously attempted in England or Europe.
Exhibitions of Linthorpe Ware were held regularly in London and in 1882 samples of the pottery were displayed at the Society of Arts Exhibition of Modern Pottery. During the late 1880’s the Linthorpe Pottery became beset with difficulties. Mr Patey suggests
there was a lack of teamwork. The price of white earthenware clay rose and though John Harrison travelled to Cornwall to negotiate a compromise he had no success. The market was becoming saturated with ware similar in style and colour, lacking in finish,
but cheaper, thus competing with the Linthorpe Pottery. By now the styles produced at the Linthorpe Art Pottery had expanded to cater to the whims of nondescript Victorian taste. Richard Patey also suggests that many of the processes and methods were wasteful. These factors together with John Harrison’s bankruptcy due to the sudden collapse of the Onward Building Society, closed the pottery in 1889. Harrison died shortly afterwards, aged 45, after suffering from pneumonia and hepatic congestion, a
serious malfunction of the liver.

Price

£~~125.00~~

$~~162.45~~ USA

€~~150.26~~

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