A Fabergé silver-mounted Bernard Moore flambe ceramic and purpurin gum pot, workmaster Vladimir Soloviev, St Petersburg, 1908-1917

Bernard Moore (1850-1935)

The British artist Bernard Moore was a significant figure in the pottery industry at the turn of the twentieth century. making a highly significant contribution to so many potteries within the ceramic industry.

Significantly Bernard experimented with Chinese inspired ‘sang-de-boeuf’ and ‘rouge flambé’ glazes, such as that seen on the body of the present gum pot. Examples of Moore's work are found in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the British Museum and in the Hanley, Stoke and Burslem museums. 

Regarded as one of the founders of the studio pottery movement, a fellow innovator of the movement, William Burton, commented on Bernard Moore's 1906 exhibition of pottery in Stoke-on-Trent:

'The glazes now produced by Mr Moore are as perfect, their tones as varied and in some cases, their colour more brilliant than any that have come from China.' (http://www.polkadotantiques.com/bernard-moore-1-1, accessed 31 October 2022)

It is very rare to see a Fabergé silver mount on a Moore ceramic, though other examples of Fabergé's collaboration with British pottery businesses during the period are known, notable Wedgwood and Doulton.