Vase commemorating the Commonwealth of Australia inauguration by H.R.H. the Duke of York, 1901 / Doulton Burslem England

R 669
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 52

fonds

1901

934348

1 commemorative object (vase) - glazed bone china - 12.3 x 12.8 cm at widest point

One side of centre panel of vase shows portrait of Queen Victoria topped by royal crown and flanked by an Australian and a British soldier. The inscription below portrait reads: 'Australian Federation 1901'. This scene is duplicated on opposite side of vase.

The inscription beneath one of the portraits of Queen Victoria reads: 'May the Union Between The Colonies And The Mother-Land, Now Cemented By Their Blood, Be For Ever Maintained [signed] Joseph Chamberlain'.

Two interlocking portraits of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, separate the two portraits of Queen Victoria.

Another two interlocking portraits of Sir Henry Parkes and John Hope, the Earl of Hopetoun, are on opposite side of vase.

There is a floral design above and below centre panel and inside rim of vase.

The base of vase has the trademark 'Doulton Burselm England', surmounted by a crown.

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room, PXn 475 -

Information transferred from Pictures Shelf List as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

Another Doulton vase commemorating Federation located at DR 138

A similar beaker (located at DR 139) of bone china with gold print, was designed in Sept. 1900 by John Slater, an artist who was employed by Doulton at Burslem, England, in collaboration with John Shorter, to commemorate Australian Federation in 1901. John Slater could have been the artist responsible for the vase also.