ceramics - Melrose
Melrose Australian Ware. About 1932 the Hoffman Brick Company in Melbourne expanded its interests and took over a small art-pottery and began to market a range of commercial art-pottery that employed Australian floral and faunal motifs.
This ware was called ‘Mel-rose Australian Ware' and although moulded and thus capable of being economically mass-produced it had some of the qualities of more expensive handmade pottery. Usually coloured green, a fresh clean colour that enjoyed a lasting vogue in the 1930s after the drab browns and ochres of the Depression, some examples exist which have white, pink, grey blue or other coloured glazes. Gum leaves are the usual motif employed on Mel-rose Australian Ware. Possums, kangaroos, koalas and fish are some of the animals employed as decorative motifs on bowls jugs, vases and bookends.
Mel-rose Australian Ware continued in production until about 1940, when the escalation of war efforts and privation made the production of goods impossible.
This ware was called ‘Mel-rose Australian Ware' and although moulded and thus capable of being economically mass-produced it had some of the qualities of more expensive handmade pottery. Usually coloured green, a fresh clean colour that enjoyed a lasting vogue in the 1930s after the drab browns and ochres of the Depression, some examples exist which have white, pink, grey blue or other coloured glazes. Gum leaves are the usual motif employed on Mel-rose Australian Ware. Possums, kangaroos, koalas and fish are some of the animals employed as decorative motifs on bowls jugs, vases and bookends.
Mel-rose Australian Ware continued in production until about 1940, when the escalation of war efforts and privation made the production of goods impossible.
56 item(s) found, 1-50 shown:
A Melrose Ware red glazed pottery vase
Melrose two handed vase with drip glazed, marked. Height 16 cm
Melrose blue glazed small gumleaf vase, marked. Height 12.5 cm
Mel-rose Ware Victoria, circa 1935, Compressed globular, two handled earthenware vase moulded with gum leaves, green ground stamped Mel-rose Australia. Width 22 cm
Melrose Ware blue glaze double handled squat vase. Width 28 cm
Melrose Ware vase brown and yellow flambe glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 17 cm
Melrose Ware pottery troughs (2). One rectangular form, the other with stepped sides. Both glazed in green. 31 and 33 cm. Width
Mel-rose Ware, Victoria, circa 1935, three small earthenware vases moulded with gum leaves two green ground one white the largest. Height 8 cm .
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, an earthenware two handled jardiniere the oval body moulded with possums perched on a leafy Eucalyptus branch black factory stamp 35 cm wide across the handles.
Melrose Ware vase, orange flambe glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Work. Height 22 cm
Melrose Ware vase, green flambe glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 22 cm
Melrose Ware vase, cobalt blue flambÚ glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 22 cm
Melrose Ware trough, with moulded gum leaves, green glaze, stamped Melrose Australian ware (a/f). Height 13 cm. Length 37 cm
Melrose Ware trough, with moulded gum leaves, cobalt blue glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 13 cm. Length 35 cm
Melrose Ware Toby Jug, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 18 cm
Melrose Ware inkwell, modelled as the head of a Scotsman, retains circular paper label for Melrose Ware. Height 8 cm
Melrose Ware squat vase, with twin handles red and orange flambe glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 14 cm. Diameter 27 cm
Melrose Ware vase, moulded gum leaves with green glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 25 cm
Melrose Ware possum bowl, matte green glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 11 cm
Melrose Ware koala jug, matte green glaze, stamped Melrose Australian Ware. Height 14 cm
An Australian Melrose Pottery blue glazed gumnut and leaf jardiniere
Melrose Ware, set of 4 pottery canisters in a pale blue glaze with gumleaf and gumnut decoration. Largest is 20 cm tall
Melrose Ware green glazed pottery vase, with gumleaf and gumnut decoration. 22 cm
Melrose Ware, a collection six (6) pieces including a squat blue glazed gum leaf vase, green triangular vase, green tankard and three blue glazed vases of varying shapes and sizes.
Melrose Ware, gum tree landscape vase, cylindrical body with flared rim, 14.5 cm
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, earthenware vase, baluster moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 23.5 cm high
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, cylindrical earthenware jug moulded with possums green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 11 cm high
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, globular earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 14.5 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, tapering cylindrical earthenware vase, moulded with foliate decoration stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 15.5 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, circular earthenware float bowl moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 19.5 cm diameter.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, four small earthenware vases applied with gum leaves green ground the largest 7.5 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, circular two handled earthenware bowl moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 17 cm diameter.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, four small earthenware vases moulded with gum nuts and leaves green ground the largest 10 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, cylindrical tapering earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 11 cm high
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, globular earthenware vase, moulded with gum nuts and leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 12 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, ovoid footed earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 24 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, pair of earthenware vases each moulded with gum nuts and leaves green ground 10 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, rectangular earthenware planter moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 34.5 cm wide.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, ovoid footed earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 24 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, oval earthenware jardiniere moulded with possums green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 35 cm wide.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, circular two handled earthenware bowl moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 16 cm diameter.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, cylindrical footed earthenware vase, moulded with gum nuts and leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 25 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, cylindrical tapering earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 15.5 cm high.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, circular earthenware float bowl moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 19 cm diameter.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, rectangular earthenware planter moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 24.5 cm wide.
Mel-Rose Ware, Victoria, cylindrical tapering earthenware vase, moulded with gum leaves green ground stamped Mel-Rose Australian Ware 16 cm high.
Melrose Ware, twin-handled bowl, Australian; green glazed ceramic, printed maker's marks, original decal label
A Melrose Ware bowl, of oval form with moulded squirrels. Length 37 cm
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