Premier Pottery Vase with Grape Vine Decoration

Premier Pottery, David Dee, Margaret Kerr (decorator). A wheel…
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Premier Pottery, David Dee, Margaret Kerr (decorator). A wheel thrown glazed earthenware vase with hand modelled and applied grape vine decoration c. 1930, inscribed to base D. Dee Premier Pottery, 40 cm high, 13 cm diameter. Provenance: Desiged for the Adelaide market, retailed by Horden's. Illustrated: Australian Art Pottery: 1900 - 1950, Kevin Fahy, Keith Free, John Freeland & Andrew Simpson, casuarina Press 2004, p. 132, plate. no. 105, Note: Margaret Kerr joined the Premier Pottery in late 1932, or early 1933, and introduced applied decoration on pots. She had taught ceramics at the Brunswick Technical School, and her work shows the influence of her contemporaries, Merric Boyd and Una Deerbon

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  • Casuarina - Casuarina, is also known as beefwood (because of its appearance) she-oak, swamp oak, river oak, forest oak and Botany Bay wood. It is a native Australian hardwood, red brown in colour with dark flecks.
  • Earthenware - A basic ceramic material that is fired at a low temperature. Earthenware is the basis of almost all ancient, medieval, Middle Eastern and European painted ceramics. After firing, the colour is the colour of the clay when it is dug from the ground: buff, brown and red. It is not waterproof until glazed. Creamware is a type of earthenware covered with a transparent lead glaze. Majolica, faience and delft are also earthenware covered in an opaque white tin glaze.

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