Limited Edition Moorcroft 'King Lear' Ginger Jar by Rachel Bishop

A Moorcroft limited edition 'King Lear' ginger jar, designed by Rachel Bishop for the Shakespeare series, late 1990s, the 769/6 ginger jar and cover, from the Shakespeare series made for black and white Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon, tube-line decorated "with burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, darnel and all the idle weeds that grow in our sustaining corn" (Cornelia, Act IV, scene 4, King Lear) upon a cobalt blue washed ground, with impressed Moorcroft stamp, painted marks and other ciphers, and numbered 234/250. Height 6.10 in.

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Tubelined - In tubelined decoration, a thin line of clay is piped on to the surface of the object through a nozzle to define the design outlines, then the glazes are poured into the areas of the object that are created behind the shallow "dams" formed by the tube-lined decoration.

Tubelined decoration was extensively used by Moorcroft Pottery. It was an expensive decorating technique, owing to the many possibilities of error in manufacture.

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Bishop, Rachel - Moorcroft ceramics designer 141
Moorcroft Pottery (England), item types
- ginger jars 64
- pot pourri and jars 113