Grey Green Vase with Horses (1936)

C. and N. (Charles and Nell) Vyse

stoneware

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Classification:

Craft, Pottery, Ceramic

Materials:

Stoneware

Dimensions:

22.8 cm

Accession Number:

ABDMS006504

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1942

Scheme:

Pottery and Crafts Fund (1928-1948)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Walker's Galleries by Ernest Marsh (1863-1945) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Pottery and Craft Fund (1928-48); presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, 1942

Relationship:

Ernest Marsh Walker's Galleries, London Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Born in Staffordshire in 1882, Charles Vyse is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of British studio pottery. After starting his apprenticeship at Doulton in 1896, he studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art between 1905-10, eventually setting up his own studio in Chelsea in 1919 with his wife Nell, a chemist and from then on working as an independent modeller and sculptor.

The couple began by making slip-cast figures but later works were inspired by Chinese glazes and decorative styles. Vyse exhibited annually at Walker's Gallery in Bond Street, London, where many of his pots were sold. After the war, Vyse took up a teaching position at Farnham School of Art. This vase is based on a Chinese method of decoration - with pads of clay incised with rearing horses.

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