Moorcroft 'Rough Hawksbeard' Vase by Rachel Bishop, 1997
A Moorcroft 'Rough Hawksbeard' pattern vase, designed by Rachel Bishop, circa 1997, the 7/5 shape vase tube-line decorated with Crepis flowers in yellow and green tines upon a graduated blue washed ground, with impressed Moorcroft stamp, painted marks and other ciphers to the underside and signed 'J. Moorcroft' in gold pencil, in its original box. Height 5.51 in.
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- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
- 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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