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Pair of Royal Windsor Ware mantel vases

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L. Reid

c. 1920

Subcollections

Maley family Collection

Overview

pair of hand painted ceramic vases

Historical information

This pair of vases with views of Windsor Castle and Haddon Hall painted by L. Reid was a wedding gift from Charles Crowther Maley MP to Cecil Maley and Genevieve Howard. The couple were married at Three Springs on 7 November 1927.

Cecil Morrison Maley (1902-1985) was the son of John Morrison and Ethel Maley (nee Clinch) and was born at Greenough. He worked as a farmhand, then farmer at Three Springs.

Genevieve Howard (1905-2005) was the daughter of William James and Sarah Jane Howard (nee Pascoe). She grew up on Plainfield Farm in Three Springs.

After their marriage, the couple moved into a small weatherboard cottage on a farm where life was tough and very basic. They were to have seven children.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB0375

Item type

Vases

Themes

Art and Design
People
Social History

Material

Ceramics

Inscriptions and markings

One is identified as Windsor Castle, the other as Haddon Hall.

Contextual Information

The museum does have other wedding gifts to the Maley family in the collection. Like the Ethel Maley silverware (GMOBs 0477-0479), these mantle vases are status symbol gifts, designed to impress.
Although these vases were first owned by a third generation of the Maley family, who lived in Three Springs, they still have a connection through being gifted by Charles Crowther Maley who was born in this house.

They are representative of souvenirs from the ‘Mother Country,” a place neither the giver nor the recipients visited.

Keywords

Maley, Howard, Three Springs

Place made

England
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1920

Statement of significance

The object 'Pair of Royal Windsor Ware mantel vases' (GMOB0375) is a rare example and has very high aesthetic significance, given its (form, colour, texture). The item has low scientific significance, although being representative of the class CERAMICS/[Medium] in fair condition. The item has historic significance for the local community and has good interpretive potential. This item has very high social significance given they were associated with CHARLES CROWTHER MALEY(1927), used by GENEVIEVE SARAH HOWARD(1927),

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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