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PILKINGTON'S ROYAL LANCASTRIAN POTTERY
(Lots 165-175, 179-181)
From 1893-1938 and for a short time after World War II, Pilkington's Tile and Pottery Company produced tiles and art pottery in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. Owned by the Pilkington family, the firm was managed by William Burton, a chemist and potter trained at Wedgwood, assisted by his brother Joseph and by contemporary artists such as Lewis F. Day, Walter Crane and C.F.A. Voysey. Its Lancastrian lustred wares proved extremely popular. Renamed Royal Lancastrian in 1913 when King George V awarded the firm a royal warrant, this range of vases and small sculptures proved the mainstay of the company, with over 11,500 pieces of lustre sold by 1914, retailing at such august firms as Liberty's in London and Tiffany & Co. in New York. The present collection represents the work of the most important lustre painters employed by the firm. For a detailed discussion of the production, see A.J. Cross, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, London, 1980.
A PILKINGTON'S LANCASTRIAN LUSTRED TEAL-GROUND POTTERY BOWL
IMPRESSED FACTORY SEAL, LUSTRED BIRD AND W.S.M. MONOGRAM FOR WILLIAM S. MYCOCK IN 1911, IMPRESSED SHAPE NUMBER 2524
Details
A PILKINGTON'S LANCASTRIAN LUSTRED TEAL-GROUND POTTERY BOWL
Impressed factory seal, lustred bird and W.S.M. monogram for William S. Mycock in 1911, impressed shape number 2524
Of hemispheric form, reserved and lustred in silver in the Celtic taste with trailing stylised seed pods and vines
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter
Impressed factory seal, lustred bird and W.S.M. monogram for William S. Mycock in 1911, impressed shape number 2524
Of hemispheric form, reserved and lustred in silver in the Celtic taste with trailing stylised seed pods and vines
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
with Letham Antiques and Art Gallery, Edinburgh, 1990.
Literature
R. P. Wunder, 'Living with Antiques: Villa San Maurizio in Southern California', The Magazine Antiques, December 1999, p. 844-845, pl. IX.