'Flambe Eventide' a tall Moorcroft Pottery vase designed by ...
'Flambe Eventide' a tall Moorcroft Pottery vase designed by William Moorcroft, shouldered form, tubeline decorated with trees before rolling hills, in colours under a light flambe glaze, impressed factory marks, painted blue signature, 33cm. high Provenance Reginald E.J. Moore CBE, thence by descent. Reginald (Reg) Moore was Secretary-General for the Trades Fairs, working on them in the 1930s and1940s before retiring after the 1951 Festival of Britain. Literature Paul Atterbury Moorcroft Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, 1st Edition, 1990 page 95 plates 2 and 3 for comparable landscape vases illustrated. Page 131 plate a contemporary photograph of R.E.J. Moore for with Walter Moorcroft showing Queen Mary a large Clematis pattern vase at the 1947 British Industries Fair. Walter Moorcroft Memories of Life and Living, Richard Dennis Publications, page 6 for a contemporary photograph of Walter Moorcroft with R.E.J. Moore showing a vase to Queen Mary a collector of Moorcroft for over 30 years.
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'Flambe Eventide' a tall Moorcroft Pottery vase designed by William Moorcroft, shouldered form, tubeline decorated with trees before rolling hills, in colours under a light flambe glaze, impressed factory marks, painted blue signature, 33cm. high Provenance Reginald E.J. Moore CBE, thence by descent. Reginald (Reg) Moore was Secretary-General for the Trades Fairs, working on them in the 1930s and1940s before retiring after the 1951 Festival of Britain. Literature Paul Atterbury Moorcroft Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, 1st Edition, 1990 page 95 plates 2 and 3 for comparable landscape vases illustrated. Page 131 plate a contemporary photograph of R.E.J. Moore for with Walter Moorcroft showing Queen Mary a large Clematis pattern vase at the 1947 British Industries Fair. Walter Moorcroft Memories of Life and Living, Richard Dennis Publications, page 6 for a contemporary photograph of Walter Moorcroft with R.E.J. Moore showing a vase to Queen Mary a collector of Moorcroft for over 30 years.
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Condition reports are available on request, via email.
