AN EXTREMELY RARE SET OF DAVENPORT STORM LIGHTS
REF: FA1603
£ POA
The radial and step-cut bases supporting a foliate mounts with key pattern motif, issuing a bell shape shades finely decorated with Greek scenes, anthemion and key pattern border.
- Height 53 cm / 21"
- Diameter 20 cm / 8"
- Period 1800-1849
- Year 1810
- Country England
- Literature Davenport is mostly known as a manufacturer of creamware and fine porcelain during the late 18th and early 19th century. In 1801, John Davenport entered a partnership with his old patron, Kinnersley and Edward Grafton of Stourbridge, to make high quality table glass at Longport, Stoke-on-Trent. The partnership finished in 1807 and the firm was continued by John Davenport and his cousin James as J. and J. Davenport. On 1st August 1806, John Davenport took out a patent for a special type of enamel decoration. This was a very complicated process that produced very fine, faint decorations inscribed into the enamel layer before firing. These were only produced for a few decades and almost all surviving examples are drinking glasses. The most frequently occurring decorations show elegant country-sportsmen in contemporary dress. It is likely that such table wares were used to serve refreshments for country gentlemen who partook in such pursuits.
- EXHIBITIONS The storm shades are possibly one of the largest examples of davenports work know to survive, other examples can be found at the V&A museum.
