A LARGE MID-VICTORIAN TERRACOTTA GARDEN URN
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A LARGE MID-VICTORIAN TERRACOTTA GARDEN URN

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN MARRIOTT BLASHFIELD

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A LARGE MID-VICTORIAN TERRACOTTA GARDEN URN
Attributed to John Marriott Blashfield
The circular moulded lid with a berried finial above a rustic band, each side with a satyr's mask formed naturalistically from leaves and hung with drapery swags, with leaf-wrapped base and turned waisted socle, on a square plinth
48½ in. (123 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

John Marriott Blashfield, remarked in his essay Account of the History and Manufacture of Ancient and Modern Terracotta (1855) that he had been inspired to make a kind of artificial stoneware by seeing the pieces for which Mark Blanchard, the leading terracotta ornamentalist of the mid-19th century who had trained at the Coade manufactory, had been awarded prizes at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He obtained Letters Patent in 1854 for "Improvements in the Manufacture of China, Pottery, Bricks, and other articles, made for the most part of Clay", and again in 1860 for "Improvements in Burning Pottery and China Ware." He had a manufactory in Millwall, Poplar, with a sales outlet at No.1 Praed Street, Edgware Road, London, but moved to Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1859 to be nearer to the clay-beds. He won medals for Terra Cotta, in the Glass and Pottery and Architectural Objects classes at the International Exhibition of 1862, and a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1867. One of the most important commissions in which he was involved was supplying architectural terracotta for the decoration for the new Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. But this undertaking stretched his resources too far and by 1874 the Stamford Terracotta Company works, machinery as well as models and moulds, were for sale; it finally closed in 1875.

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