Torquay Pottery vase, Chinese boy dec. with verses by William Barnes, c. 1895
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Unusual Torquay Pottery vessel, with squat body and tall concave neck, a simple arc handle to one side, the lower portion glazed green, the neck with white slip featuring a well painted depiction of a Chinese boy with a ball, inscribed below
“Vor Doset dear, Then qie woone cheer, (Barnes)”
Indistinctly marked (not pressed in, & with a glaze inclusion over top)
‘TORQUAY (?) / DEVON’
Circa 1910
14cm high
Good condition, dots to cream ground are firing faults.
Reverend William Barnes (1801 – 1886) was a Dorset born Cambridge-educated scholar with a vast range of interests, including the Dorset dialect and poetry: he wrote poems in the local dialect.
He was a ‘linguistic purist’, and explored the concept of what English would sound like if the English had won in 1066: keen to explore the Anglo-Saxon language, he removed all the French and Latin addition to the English language, and invited new words in their place!
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