FIVE DUNMORE POTTERY ANIMAL FIGURES
PETER GARDNER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
£1,638
Auction: Lots 1 - 328 | 13 November 2024 at 10am
Description
comprising a green glazed frog singing ‘The Woods O Dunmore’; a treacle glazed pig; a comical grotesque dog; a brown glazed pug; and a green/blue glazed monkey; all impressed DUNMORE (5)
Dimensions
pig 16cm long, frog 12cm high, monkey 6.4cm 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. The green pottery frog included in this lot is one of Peter Gardner's comical and charming designs. The frog sings lustily a romantic song entitled ‘The Woods of Dunmore’. The song appeared in around 1835 and features in ‘Auld Scotch Songs and Ballads', arranged by Sinclair Dunn. Falkirk Council have an example of this model in thier collection.