Description

Coalport Vase – Seaweed Shell

This piece of Coalport pottery was made between 1881 and 1891. It also bears a mark to the underside showing that this particular design was registered with the number 138521.

The form of the vessel is that the four feet are made to look like coral and these coral forms rise to encompass four shell shapes that make up the sides of the piece.

Coalport is a Shropshire pottery, they were founded in 1795 and sited on the banks of both the Severn river and the Coalport canal in the Ironbridge gorge. There is now a really good museum on the site and, while there is still some production, the visitor attraction is now dominant. Coalport became part of the Wedgwood group in 1967.

This piece is made from bone china and finely modelled. It could be used as a vase for a selection of short stemmed flowers or alternatively as a vessel for . . . . dolly mixtures.

Measurements:

Height: 6cm
Diameter: 6cm