COLLECTION OF DUNMORE POTTERY ANIMAL FIGURES
PETER GARDNER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
£2,268
Auction: Lots 1 - 328 | 13 November 2024 at 10am
Description
comprising a green glazed pug; a larger dog in dark mottled glaze; a green glazed frog vase; a mottled green and blue glaze pig money box; a red/blue glaze grotesque figure with aperture on the back; and a white glazed pig; all impressed DUNMORE (6)
Dimensions
6.5cm - 12cm high
Provenance
Provenance: The Maisels Collection of British Ceramics
Footnote
Note: The Dunmore Pottery was situated in Airth, north of Alloa, on the estate of the Earl of Dunmore. Peter Gardner (born 1834) was the third generation of potters at Dunmore. He ran the pottery from 1866. Until this time it had produced utilitarian wares but Gardner radically altered the nature of the ware made at Dunmore, producing some outstanding art pottery and through connections introduced by the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, enjoyed aristocratic and royal patronage, and exhibited work at international exhibitions. Wares produced included vases, urns, plaques, garden pottery and animal grotesques.