Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Co. (founded 1750). Ewer, 1888. Porcelain, 12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (32.1 x 14.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.110. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.110_print.jpg)
Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Co. (founded 1750). Ewer, 1888. Porcelain, 12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (32.1 x 14.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.110. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 1999.1_1999.152.110_PS2.jpg)
Ewer
Decorative Arts and Design
Edward Lycett’s designs frequently emulated fashionable English and continental art pottery, as seen in this comparison of an FMCo ewer with a closely related English Crown Derby one.
Both vessels exhibit the exoticism associated with the Aesthetic Movement, but the smaller-scale English ewer with its delicate and precise decoration is challenged by the distinctly American FMCo ewer, which is characterized by bolder decoration and scale.
Both vessels exhibit the exoticism associated with the Aesthetic Movement, but the smaller-scale English ewer with its delicate and precise decoration is challenged by the distinctly American FMCo ewer, which is characterized by bolder decoration and scale.
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
1888
DIMENSIONS
12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (32.1 x 14.6 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
On base: company logo printed in brown, impressed "^, , 607," hand painted in brown "1722/1409/x," and old paper label numbered "1199."
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.152.110
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Ewer, ivory body, of bulbous form with elongated, tapering neck surmounted by flared and scrolling pulled spout and terminating in a ring-shaped knop above the inverted, sloping shoulders of the onion-shaped body, mounted on a raised, circular foot. The neck decorated in celadon green ground beneath a gilt craquelure pattern and neo-greque decorative motifs, the body decorated with an overall gilt and platinum pattern of naturalistically rendered thistles and tulips. The molded and applied reticulated handle, of ear-form with everted arches, of celadon ground with gilt decoration.
Very good condition.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Co. (founded 1750). Ewer, 1888. Porcelain, 12 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (32.1 x 14.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.110. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.110_print.jpg)
IMAGE
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