vase

Bernard Moore 1850 - 1935

Summary

Public: Ovoid vase tapering to neck, porcelain, covered in red flambe glaze with feathery crystalline 'green jade' glaze on exterior. Private: Large pear-shaped vase, swollen at base and tapering up to short neck with everted rim, wide thick footring. Covered in bright rouge flambe copper red glaze, fired in a reducing atmosphere, then re-fired in an oxidising atmosphere with dark green crystalline glaze on exterior sides. This has given overall dark green colour with long thin feathery crystals, dark red visible beneath in patches. Rim and base untouched, remaining bright red. Slightly lustrous film to surface. Shape: 147, Pattern : Green Jade.

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Experimental Glazes From the end of the 19th century there was a remarkable surge of interest in experimenting with ceramic glazes. Companies such as Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery of Clifton Junction, north of Manchester, employed chemists who worked tirelessly applying theoretic inorganic chemistry to the art of the potter. Uneven effects which had been regarded as irritating faults were carefully refined to produce streaks, stars and feathery or cloudy glazes. It was in the Edwardian era that these new colours and effects found a market.