Lot Essay
This vase is illustrated in the 1913 Ruskin Pottery catalogue, page 52, no.119. It is one of only two with this glaze effect; the other was sold to the Count Kessler of Weimer.
Details
A Ruskin Pottery high-fired stoneware vase and cover, broad shouldered baluster form with short cylindrical neck, the domed cover with knopped finial, dove grey ground with fragmented with random grey and green 'snake-skin' patterning, with paper label Taylor, West Smethwick, Leadless Glaze, and This piece of Ruskin Pottery cannot be repeated
Exhibited
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Ruskin Pottery, 1975, no.116