A large Ruskin Pottery high-fired stoneware vase by William Howson Taylor

A large Ruskin Pottery high-fired stoneware vase by William Howson Taylor, shouldered form with tapering neck, covered in a sang de boeuf glaze speckled with lavender and mint green impressed Ruskin England, glaze fault to base rim, 39cm. high

Literature

Paul Atterbury and John Henson, Ruskin Pottery, Baxendale Press, page 130 for a comparable vase, the shape introduced in the 1920s.

Catalogue Notes

it is thought this was Nick's first Ruskin vase, the vase that started the collection.