Antique Pair English Porcelain Royal Doulton Art Nouveau Ewers Pitchers Urns

Very stylish identical pair of English Royal Doulton Lambeth English moulded salt-glaze stoneware pottery ewers of compact proportions. Each of bulbous form with wavy flared rim and single scroll handle. Lavish Art Nouveau raised tube-line decoration in relief of multiple leaves and frogs (unusual decoration for a Doulton piece) within a cobalt blue ground, the main body colour is dark brown mottled ground. Back and front views are similar. First quarter of the Twentieth Century. Location: Dublin City, Ireland. Affordable fixed charge Worldwide Store to door shipping offered by Seller. John Slater (1844-1914) was the Art Director at Doulton & Co. Burslem from 1887 until his death in 1914. He studied at the Stoke-on-Trent School of Design and worked at Minton and then Pinder, Bourne & Co., before moving to Doulton & Co. when Pinder, Bourne & Co. was acquired by that company. As well as being a painter who signed his works, he was involved in the development of many of the special glazes used by Doulton, including rouge flambe, and for a number of patents relating to transfer printing from photographic plates onto ceramics. Some works are marked "Doulton & Slaters Patent", a process which involves the use of lace fabrics impressed into the surface of clay as a decorative technique.