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A presentation given to the National Academy of Design
January 16, 2004

by Marilyn G. Karmason, M.D.

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Updated: June 30, 2009

Section 6: Other English Manufactures

Later English majolica is also interesting; Pieces imitate and others are more original. To compete with the established potters, Thomas Forester & Sons (and later, Samuel Lear) placed ads in the Pottery Gazette. Forester produced gurgling fish pitchers.

Thomas_Forester_Ad

And a lovely cobalt cheese bells.

Thomas_Forester_Heron_Cheese_Bell

Similar to French majolica, baskets were “a Ia Barbotin,”, with raised flowers made of slip.

Thomas_Forester_a_la_Barbotin_Basket

Forester made sanded-majolica with both sand & slip such as this bowl.

Thomas_Forester_Sanded_Floral_Centerpiece

Here is Forester’s garden seat of wheat, corn and grasses.

Thomas_Forester_Garden_Seat

Lear – pieces include a large pitcher with blue, yellow, green, red & white glazes; there is a tea-pot, sugar, creamer, plate and butter dish.

Lear_Pond_Lily_Tea_Set

The pitcher and  cheese bell have their own design.

Lear_Floral_Cheese_Bell_And_Pitcher
 
Simon Fielding began in 1878, with naturalistic designs & textured backgrounds, and styles of Bow and Floral, Shell and Net, etc.  Here’s a Fan and Scroll tea set.

S_Fielding_Fan_and_Scroll_Tea_Set_with_Tray

And an umbrella stand,

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And a pitcher features a child poet.

S_Fielding_Girl_Pitcher

There is also an Oriental-style Fielding oyster plate.

S_Fielding_Fan_and_Insect_Oyster_Plate

And a bowl and butter dish.

S_Fielding_Butter_Dish_And_Bowl

Worcester and Copeland produced good porcelain and great majolica. Worcester had a sharp mouth-pouring pitcher.

Worcester_Fish_Pitcher

These shells that resemble Minton nautilus shells, are, in reality, really Worcester’s creation.

Worcester_Nautilus_Shell_Vases

Copeland created a tri-corner vase with bold eagles made for the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial. Three shields spelled out Independence, Centennial Memorial, and George Washington, Father of Our Country.

Copeland_Amercan_Eagle_Tricorne_Vase

This early Copeland pitcher is also an example of his work with two fishermen.

Copeland_Fishermen_Centerpiece

There is also an elegant Copeland pitcher, albeit early He also designed three sized pitchers in the Egyptian Lotus pattern of 1877.

Copeland_Lotus_Pitcher

T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore produced excellent majolica in the l870’s and 80’s. The V&A Museum has this Brown­-Westhead pitcher of sun-ripened grapes.

Brown-Westhead_Moore_Grape_Pitcher

And 22” high garden seat portraying an Egyptian slave girl with palm fronds, lotus blossoms, cobras and an owl.

Brown-Westhead_Moore_Egyptian_Garden_Seat

The English poet, Wil1iam Wordsworth wrote a 2000-line poem, “Doe of Ryland”, about the sadness of a Catholic-Scottish daughter whose entire family was killed by soldiers of the Anglican-English queen. The poetry’s sadness remains to the end, and the girl dies quietly, close to her “Doe of Ryland”, a creation attributed to Brown-Westhead.

Brown-Westhead_Moore_Doe_of_Ryland

Brown-Westhead regal Tiger.

Brown-Westhead_Moore_Tiger

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