From:Te Toi Uku
Name/TitleSwan
About this objectA small vase in the shape of a swan, covered in a red, cream and brown trickleglaze.
Trickle-glazed swans started to appear in the late 1940s. David Jenkin, the designer of the swans, influenced this new cheap and effective way of decorating products when he was employed in the artware department of Crown Lynn in 1945, and started experimenting with glaze effects.
The 'Specials Department' as it was known, was responsible for developing the trickle-glazes to be used on the range of wares. Scratching or incising numbers and marks into the base of products, for example 16/21, became a common practice to identify the glaze recipes they had used.
MakerAmalgamated Brick and Pipe Company Limited
Maker RoleManufacturer
Date Made1945-1960
Place MadeNew Lynn
Named CollectionQuinn Collection
Object TypeVase
Object number2008.1.363
Copyright Licence
Attribution - Non-commercial (cc)