<ObjectID>"95/4/1"</ObjectID>         
<Name>"Vases"</Name>     
<Statement>"Vase, `Chintz Vase with Cockatoos', terracotta earthenware 
blend/ underglaze decoration in slip and oxides/  on-glaze gold lustre, Mark 
Heidenreich/Stephen Bowers, Australia, 1989-1994"</Statement>
<Designed>"Bowers, Stephen; Adelaide, South Australia"</Designed>  
<Made>"Heidenreich, Mark; Sydney, New South Wales"</Made>    
<Date>"1989-1994"</Date> 
<DateType>"Manufacture"</DateType>  
<Description>"Vase, `Chintz vase with Cockatoos', made by Mark  
Heidenreich, Sydney, 1989 and decorated by Stephen Bowers, Adelaide, 
1993-1994. Terracotta earthenware blend vase, wheelmade  (thrown), with a 
wide flat base, raised rims at the foot, narrowing above the base then 
swelling out to a large ovoid body  with rounded shoulders, and topped by 
a short narrow neck below a wide thick rim. The foot and rim are decorated 
with  underglaze black bands on either side of a black and brown marbled band.
 The body is covered with handpainted decoration in  the form of coloured 
slips, underglazes, and oxides. Colours include deep red, browns, yellow, 
orange, white, blues, all  outlined in fine black which after firing was 
followed by the gold lustre (overglaze) background. The pattern basically  
consists of on the one side three white cockatoos perched on a vine with a 
tiger pattern, and on the opposite side foliage  with the same patterned 
vine and a number of labels, eg. ""BENT"", ""FOLD"". The whole vessel is 
heavily covered with motifs  which combine Bowers's interest in textile, 
Australian iconography and porcelain (cf. Designed Notes). The maker, 
designer,  and year are painted in black underglaze in two captions against 
white just above the foot: ""MARK HEIDENREICH - STEPHEN  BOWERS - 1993"" 
and ""ADELAIDE S.A""."</Description>    
<Marks></Marks>
<Dimensions>"H 85.0 CM  D 53.0 CM"</Dimensions>
<DesignedNote>"Designed and decorated by Stephen Bowers in Adelaide 
between  1993-94, on a vase wheelthrown for him by Mark Heidenreich at the 
Pump and Crank Pottery at Taren Point, Sydney in 1989.  Intended as one of a 
pair, the other to have black cockatoos on it; the second vase was made at 
the same time, but will be  decorated in 1995. Bowers will probably commission
 Heidenreich to make pedestals on completion of the second vase. Bowers  has 
been interested in design and decoration using sources from porcelain, textile
 and Australian iconography for many  years. For example, on this vase, apart 
from his signature cockatoos, the leaf, vine, and flower motifs are derived 
from  C18th Indian Kandahar printed textiles (hence the name ""Chintz""), an 
early C19th ball pattern from Japanese ceramic  dinnerware, the blue-and-white
 underglaze patterns from Chinese ceramic exportware, such as the the willow 
pattern mixed  with the Australian icons of the Sydney Opera House and May 
Gibb's characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Figures inspired by  Tenniel's  
illustrations from ""Alice in Wonderland"" also feature on the vase, along 
with other symbols like the light globe,  pegs on a rope (washing line?), 
insects, seahorse."</DesignedNote>
<MadeNote>"The vase was wheel thrown by Mark Heidenreich at the Pump and
 Crank  Pottery at Taren Point in Sydney in 1989, one of a number that were 
thrown for Bowers at this time, including the two  'Palaceware'jardinieres 
already in the Museum's collection. It is made from a terracotta-earthenware 
blend devised by  Heidenreich. Bowers usually makes his own smaller plates, 
teapots etc, but prefers Heidenreich to make the bigger pieces.  Heidenreich 
has enormours competence as a thrower and has since also moved to Adelaide, 
running a successful business making  large garden urns. This vase was taken 
to Adelaide, and Bowers decorated it in 1993-94. It was signed and dated in 
1993,  because that was before the glaze firing, and before the later lustre 
firing. Bowers handpaints all the decoration, using  coloured slips and 
oxides, including commercial and industrial stains."</MadeNote>    
<UsedNote></UsedNote>   
<Used></Used>
<OwnedExchange>"Robin Gibson Gallery; Darlinghurst, New South  Wales"</OwnedExchange>
<OwnedExchangeNote>"Exhibited at the Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 
between November 16 - December 3, 1994. (See: flyer on Blue File)."</OwnedExchangeNote>
<Subject>"Australian animals in applied art; Australian studio ceramics"</Subject>
<Category>"11 Ceramics"</Category>
<CollDevField>"29  One-off production - Australian decorative  arts and 
design"</CollDevField>

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