Vase
Sir Edmund Elton set up a pottery in his estate at Clevedon Court in Somerset in 1879. This became the Sunflower Pottery. An employee, George Masters made the work to Elton’s designs and clay was dug from the estate. Elton had success with the Art Pottery market of the period and sold some pots through Tiffany’s in New York. He was happy to experiment with glazes such as gold lustre on his earthenware pots. On other pieces he used trailed used slip to create a raised decorative surface which was then glazed.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 77/1921/4
- Collection Class
- Studio ceramics
- Material
- earthenware
- Common Name
- vase
- Simple Name
- vase
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Town
- Clevedon
- Production County
- Somerset
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Edmund
- Production Person Surname
- Elton
- Production Year Low
- 1910
- Production Year High
- 1920
