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Artist |
George Boyd; Garnkirk Fireclay Company SC; Newton Brickworks and Pottery |
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Title |
Urn, garden |
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Object type | Classification: NM3.460 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Garden urn and base, one of four received with ocm but not identified in ocm register "the body of this urn depicts a frieze of figures of various nationalities, each bearing a gift, centred by a seated figure of a (young) Queen Victoria, the handles in the form of two seated angels" (An example of this urn was shown by Fergusson and Miller and Co at the 1851 Great Exhibition.) In 1862 the moulds were obtained by the Gankirk Fireclay Company, Glasgow, which appears to date from the 1840s and exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851" (the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London) |
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after 1860 date QS:P571,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 -1886; Victorian-Contemporary Age-European and British-art and design period; 29 Oct 1965 |
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height: 810mm |
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institution QS:P195,Q758657 |
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1965.78 |
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Place of creation | Newton | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | gift of Auckland City Council, 1965, collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1965.78, col.0393, ocm?, 2002x2.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | An urn is a kind of vase with a narrow neck and a foot that stands on a pedestal. This urn was made in Aotearoa by George Boyd, an Irish-trained potter who arrived in Auckland in 1851, and established his Newton Pottery in 1860. Like other early New Zealand industrial potteries he made bricks and pipes, firebricks, tiles, chimney pots, sewerage pipes, and humble domestic objects. Boyd also produced a range of ornamental vases, urns and statuary. This is not a Newton Pottery original. It is in fact an exact copy of an urn produced by the Garnkirk pottery factory in Scotland. We know this because Garnkirk exhibited a range of glazed ceramics at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, including this urn, which was illustrated in the Garnkirk catalogue as ‘The Vase of All Nations’. A young Queen Victoria sits in the centre, holding her sceptre and orb as signs of her royal status, surrounded by a frieze of figures from different nations representing Africa, Asia and North America, each bearing a gift for the queen, gifts that also represent commerce and industry, the wealth of the British Empire. The handles are two angels. Somehow Boyd got hold of the moulds, and began producing the Garnkirk urn here in Aotearoa. His pottery mark is clearly visible on the base of the urn. It has been bisque-fired, which means it has been fired once, and then instead of being glazed and fired again, it has been painted to appear like stone. There is another ceramic urn in the museum collection that covers similar territory. This is a garden urn based on the Medici Vase, a monumental marble krater (a Greek vase used to mix wine and water) made in the 1st century AD for the Roman market in garden ornaments. It was made by Robert Heron after 1880, a potter we don’t know much about, and like the copy of the Garnkirk urn, this one has been bisque-fired and then painted. Both of these show the fashion in Aotearoa for large ornaments and statuary that are based on European culture – signs of Home in a new land. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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