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Doulton & Co., Burslem, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Robert Allen (designer)
Vase (Lactolian ware) (c. 1900)
porcelain
29.0 × 10.0 cm diameter
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Dr Robert Wilson, Governor, 1998
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Vase (Lactolian ware)
(c. 1900)
Medium
porcelain
Measurements
29.0 × 10.0 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Dr Robert Wilson, Governor, 1998
Gallery location
Mid 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This is a rare example of decoration in a mature Art Nouveau style executed by a British ceramic factory. Doulton & Co.’s ‘lactolian ware’ employed a type of pâte-sur-pâte decoration where ornament was built up upon the surface of the vase with thin layers of liquid porcelain paste. It was a time-consuming process and very little lactolian ware was eventually produced. Lactolian wares were featured by Doulton & Co. at the Paris 1900 Universal Exposition and it is probable that this vase by Robert Allen was produced for that exhibition.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Burslem, Staffordshire, England
Inscription
printed in green on base c.: (crown) / DOULTON / · (four interlocking Ds) · / BURSLEM (in a scalloped circle) / ENGLAND
painted in gold on base c.: RA 3411 (.. under 11)
impressed (inverted) in base l.c.: 743
Accession Number
1998.138
Department
International Decorative Arts
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