Doulton Lambeth Carrara Ware vase by Mildred Smallfield

Description

Doulton Lambeth Carrara Ware vase by Mildred Smallfield. Item 3222.

This bottle-shaped Doulton Lambeth specimen vase is from the Carrara Ware range which was a stoneware range of moderate output made between about 1887 and 1903. This vase was designed by Mildred B Smallfield (1862-?) who was listed as a senior assistant at Doulton in 1882. It is decorated with a pattern of enamelled stylized flowers in blue, green and white, and enhanced with gilding on an ivory coloured ground. Her assistant was Catherine Vargas. A similar vase by Smallfield is shown on page 81 of the “Lambeth Art Pottery” exhibition catalogue, published by Richard Dennis in 1975. Carrara Ware was also decorated by the Barlow sisters, Mark V Marshall and others. This vase stands 195 mm (7.75 inches) high with a diameter of 105 mm (4 inches). There is some slight loss of gilding to the rim and the body. It dates from 1887-1890.