In the last quarter of the century, the ornamental wares in Canadian homes of taste often included the forerunners of modern studio pottery, in particular the stoneware made at Doulton's Lambeth studio in England. Unlike the mass- produced wares seen in illustration 23, almost every Doulton piece of this kind was an individual creation. In 1895, Henry Morgan & Co., a well-known MontrÄal department store which has since been absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company, made a deal with Doulton's to purchase all the sample vases and jardiniÅres Doulton's had produced since 1880, and advertised them triumphantly as "works of art." The sophisticated collected them as they would paintings, one connoisseur being Edward Black Greenshields, President of the MontrÄal Art Association (now the MusÄe des Beaux-Arts de MontrÄal). This Doulton jardiniÅre entered the collection of the MusÄe more recently but it dates from the 1880s and is signed by one of Doulton's renowned artists, Florence B. Barlow.
Courtesy: MusÄe des Beaux-Arts de MontrÄal (973. Dp.2)
