128. Antique Pair English Porcelain Royal Doulton Art Nouveau Ewers Pitchers Urns

A Very Stylish Identical Pair of English Royal Doulton Lambeth English Moulded Salt-Glaze Stoneware Pottery Ewers of compact proportions.   

Each of bulbous form with wavy flared rim and single scroll handle. Lavish Art Nouveau raised tube-line decoration in relief of multiple leaves and frogs (unusual decoration for a Doulton piece) within a cobalt blue ground, the main body colour is dark brown mottled ground. Back and front views are similar.   

First quarter of the Twentieth Century.   

Condition: Superb condition with no losses. Base marks and stamps as shown.    

Height: 8.5" (21.5cm). Diameter: (at widest) 4.25” (11cm).  

Pair Eur.575.00. 

Location: Dublin City, Ireland.  

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John Slater (1844-1914) was the Art Director at Doulton & Co. Burslem from 1887 until his death in 1914. He studied at the Stoke-on-Trent School of Design and worked at Minton and then Pinder, Bourne & Co., before moving to Doulton & Co. when Pinder, Bourne & Co. was acquired by that company. As well as being a painter who signed his works, he was involved in the development of many of the special glazes used by Doulton, including rouge flambe, and for a number of patents relating to transfer printing from photographic plates onto ceramics. Some works are marked "Doulton & Slaters Patent", a process which involves the use of lace fabrics impressed into the surface of clay as a decorative technique.