CIRCA 1890, BLUE SCRIPT '...E. MORGAN./FULHAM' MARK
Details
A WILLIAM DE MORGAN LUSTRE VASE
CIRCA 1890, BLUE SCRIPT '...E. MORGAN./FULHAM' MARK
Decorated in red and silver lustre tones with a row of peacocks standing among plants below a scroll border
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Richard Dennis, London, 1986.
Literature
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 157, 215. M. Hamnett, ‘The Albert Dawson Collection: a Handley-Read Legacy’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2016, vol. 40, p. 103, fig. 10.
A vase of the same form and decoration is illustrated by M. Greenwood, The Designs of William de Morgan, Shepton Beauchamp, p. 225, pl. 160, with William de Morgan's painted design for the peacock pattern below, pl. 162.
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