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SUSANNAH (DAISY) MAKEIG-JONES
WEDGWOOD FAIRYLAND LUSTRE
Nizami (c. 1920 England)
 
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| Title | Nizami |
| Country of Origin | England |
| Dated | c. 1920 |
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SUSANNAH (DAISY) MAKEIG-JONES (1881-1945) Daisy Makeig-Jones joined the Wedgwood factory as a ceramic designer in 1909. She persuaded the Wedgwood factory’s skilled team of industrial chemists to experiment with decorative techniques to produce the “Ordinary Lustres” from which were developed the first Fairyland Lustre designs. By combining this technical ingenuity with a vivid imagination that drew upon the work of artists such as Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen, Daisy Makeig-Jones created an exotic and dramatic vision of Fairyland on Wedgwood bowls and vases. WEDGWOOD FAIRYLAND LUSTRE (1917-1937) |
| Diameter | 7.80cm ( 3.07 inches) |
This emblem design can be seen in Una des Fontaines' 'Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre', Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975, page 259, however the deer are in a different orientation.
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre, Daisy Makeig-Jones for Wedgwood
'Nizami' a Miniature Lustred Siamese Bowl, the well with circular emblem with two deer before a tree, the deer in mother of pearl lustre with a flame background, the bowl with a deep blue ground and gilt design to the rim.
The origins of this range of designs comes from Nizami, the first dramatic poet of Persia, c.1140-1203. His greatest known surviving work is the 'Khamse', which was reproduced in 1928 by Laurence Binyon as 'The Poems of Nizami'. It is the illustrations within this book that Daisy used as her source of inspiration.
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