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Pros And Cons Of Harry Parr

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Gas or Electricity Forward looking and keen to acquire one of the new electric-fired kilns, Harry Parr often discussed with Charles Vyse the pros and cons of kiln firing. Vyse was of the opinion that gas was best, and Parr was one of the first potters to bring electricity to the Cheyne Row studios. Vyse however, continued to fire his figures using the gas-fuelled kiln he had acquired when Bertha White became his assistant in 1919. From 1920, Vyse and Parr consistently showed their work at the Royal Academy. Parr organised one or two Christmas shows at his studio, but most of his work he sold through James Connell of Bond Street. His figures retailed at 25 guineas with Parr receiving his just portion of the selling price. Unlike Vyse, who by …show more content…

At Charles Noke’s invitation, Leslie Harradine had designed the figure HN479 Balloon Seller, sometimes referred to as the Balloon Woman. Harradine, consummate artist that he was, could not in good faith model a facsimile of the Vyse original, and an unacceptable practice and against the law of industrial plagiarism. The Harradine figure may be c0nstrued the amalgamation of two Vyse designs, the Balloon Woman of 1920, and the current design, Tulip Woman, 1921. It is conceivable that Harradine took the essential elements from both designs by Vyse, and amalgamated them into a new and cohesive whole, cleverly modelling a vendor figure of which the Doulton studio wholeheartedly approved. The first version of Doultons HN479 Balloon Seller had a Black shawl and grey dress with white spots, withdrawn in 1938 (Fig. 35a). A additional version HN486 had a blue dress, but was modelled without a black hat, this too was withdrawn by 1938. The version numbered HN548, introduced in 1922, had a black shawl and blue dress, also withdrawn by 1938. The Doulton figure illustrated with green shawl and cream dress (Fig. 35b), and numbered HN583, introduced in 1932, withdrawn by 1949. Finally, Doulton introduced a further version HN697 Balloon Seller in 1925, decorated with a striped red shawl and blue dress, and by 1938, it too has since been

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