item details
NameBottle Vase
ProductionPoole Pottery; potter; circa 1956; England
Alfred Read; designer; circa 1956; England
Carter, Stabler & Adams Ltd.; manufacturer(s); circa 1956; United Kingdom
Lucien Myers; designer; circa 1956; England
Alfred Read; designer; circa 1956; England
Carter, Stabler & Adams Ltd.; manufacturer(s); circa 1956; United Kingdom
Lucien Myers; designer; circa 1956; England
Classificationvases, bottles, ceramics
Materialsceramic
Materials SummaryWhite earthenware vase with painted matt glazes
Techniquesthrowing, glazing, painting, overglazing
DimensionsOverall: 105mm (width), 265mm (height), 105mm (depth), 105mm (diameter)
Registration NumberCG001870
Credit lineWalter C Cook Decorative Art Collection, Gift of Walter Cook, 1992
Overview
Occasionally, Walter bid at auctions. In 1986, he secured this British modernist bottle vase, whose streamlined elegance was inspired by Scandinavian design. The auction house, Harnett & Wedde, advertised ‘objets d’art, furniture, jewellery, and other investments of a reasonable age’