Description:
English pearlware watch stand or watch box in the form of a long case clock decorated with mottled pink lustre and yellow, red, green, and black enamels, marked DIXON, AUSTIN, & CO". The best known of the northeastern English potteries is that of Dixon, Austin, and Company, who occupied the Garrison or Sunderland Pottery that dated to the early years of the nineteenth century. Robert Dixon and Thomas Austin were partners in the concern from about 1820-1826, using the title Dixon, Austin & Co. Their company was well known for elaborate use of lustre decoration, the deposit of metals on the surface. At that time, pocket watches were not operational unless they were kept vertical; the watch box housed the pocket watch over night, and a ceramic clock face (now lost) was inserted when the watch was in use. Their watchstands, such as this example, were in the form of a tallcase clock flanked by two small figures, a form which occurs in other unmarked groups and might be a key feature in widening the field of attributable Sunderland Pottery figures. The boy and girl figures draped in pink (the girl's with repaired head and arm) lean against reeded yellow and black pillars on green bases. There are small molded female figures in yellow on green on the top of the hood, mid-body, and base of the clock form. The paper clock face, a replacement for the original ceramic face, is marked in green ink.
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