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Wilton Parker Rix Doulton Lambeth Marqueterie Ware Brown Marbled Bowl

Name: Wilton Parker Rix Doulton Lambeth Marqueterie Ware Brown Marbled Bowl
Brand: Doulton Lambeth
Price: 428.56 CHF
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (171 reviews)

About the Item

A rare and very stylish Doulton Lambeth Marqueterie Ware brown marbled art pottery bowl by Lambeth’s first Art Director Wilton Parker Rix (Doulton Lambeth 1868-1897) and dating from around 1895. Rix became a trainee manager at Doulton Lambeth in 1868 rising to the position of taking charge of the embryonic art department two years later. He was responsible for setting up exhibitions and launching the new decorative ware. As the first art director he trained new artists and claimed to have worked with more than 1,000 recruits during his career at Doulton. Rix played an important part in the development of colored glazes and pigments suitable for salt-glazed firing. He also produced new earthenware used for Faience decoration, Silicon Ware and Marqueterie Ware, which he patented jointly with Henry Doulton in 1887. Rix was heavily involved in the community at Doulton and played a very important role in the development and success achieved. He left Doulton in 1897 to work for Thomasson’s, the color manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent and then moved to Liverpool where he died in 1909. Marqueterie Ware was one of the styles of pottery developed and introduced by Rix and due to the very fine nature of the pottery, and probably limited production, not a great deal has survived. This very fine hexagonal shaped bowl stands raised on a narrow round foot with a slightly recessed base with a panel shaped hexagonal upper body and with simple raised rim with small V cut designs to the edge. The bowl is made in a thin marbled slip clay combining tones of contrasting brown with blue and white and has a printed black Doulton & Rix’s Patent mark dated 12-7-1887 to the base although was made between 1892 and 1897. The bowl also has an old paper sale label attached to base and probably acquired in the 1970’s. Provenance: Collection of the late Dr Ronald Austin of Swansea and acquired by a Belgium based collector through the UK Art Market. A rare example in good presentable condition with a few barely visible stress hairlines to the top rim.

Creator:

Doulton Lambeth (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 3.75 in (9.5 cm)Diameter: 7.19 in (18.25 cm)

Style:

Art Nouveau (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Ceramic,Hand-Crafted,Hand-Painted

Place of Origin:

United Kingdom

Period:

1890-1899

Date of Manufacture:

Circa 1895

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor structural damages.

Seller Location:

Bishop's Stortford, GB

Reference Number:

Seller: DACL231008 1stDibs: LU1328236748252

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Doulton Lambeth

The name Doulton Lambeth is widely known to collectors of British ceramics — it refers to the vases, mugs, bowls and jugs decorated by the likes of artisans such as George Tinworth, Eliza Simmance, Edith Lupton and others for Royal Doulton's pioneering art pottery studio, which was established in the Lambeth section of suburban London by 1871.

Royal Doulton was founded in 1815 by John Doulton, Martha Jones and John Watts. It was initially established as Jones, Watts and Doulton and later traded under Doulton and Watts. The firm produced utilitarian stoneware, decorative objects, drain pipes and other goods and vessels. Amid the Victorian era’s rising concern for hygiene, food safety and sanitation, the company flourished. In 1854, it rebranded as Doulton and Co., colloquially referred to as Doulton Ware.

The firm took over a factory in Staffordshire, in northern England — the traditional home of British ceramics manufacturing — to produce tableware. Around the same time, Henry Doulton — John Doulton's son — opened an art pottery studio in Lambeth, where its Aesthetic Movement-era vases, urns and other forms were decorated with painted scenic images, flowers or historical motifs thanks to its collaborations with students at the nearby Lambeth School of Art.

Taking a cue from the venerable Meissen porcelain workshops in Germany, Doulton artisans began crafting figurines modeled on characters from literature and theater. The firm also helped popularize Toby Jugs and other “character mugs” — handled cups shaped like the heads of figures from folklore and popular culture.

In the late 1870s, Doulton bought the earthenware manufacturer Pinder, Bourne and Company and purchased a factory in Burslem in 1882. King Edward VII granted the factory his Royal Warrant in 1901.

Doulton was recognized with the Queen's Award for Technical Achievement in 1966, and the firm acquired Minton two years later. It eventually became a part of WWRD Holdings Limited (Waterford Crystal, Wedgwood and Royal Doulton), which is now owned by the Fiskars Corporation.

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