Beautiful and rare vintage Pickard china vase, painted with pair of mallard ducks in flight over landscape.
Soft colors on outside, cream color inside.
Trumpet shape.
5.
5 inches tall; 3.
5 inch diameter at top.
Signed by artist Challinor.
Info found online about other Pickard vases signed by Challinor:
About Pickard China---
Wilder A.
Pickard founded Pickard China in the 1890s to produce fine hand-decorated china for the American market.
Importing blank porcelain from major European makers, Pickard artists designed and executed beautiful hand-painted tableware that was sold in the finest department stores and jewelers.
His Chicago studios employed hundreds of decorators and artists through the years, many of whom went on to go into business for themselves.
Today, Pickard China produces and decorates its own china here in the US, offering classic and contemporary patterns featuring Pickard’s signature application of 22K gold.
Pickard China is featured in the US State Department’s embassies around the world, and they have produced sets for the White House and Air Force One.
About the Artist ---
The artist is Edward Challinor.
Edward Challinor was one of the most notable of Pickard artists.
Challinor was a descendent from a family of Stafford shire potters, beginning with his grandfather, Edward, who began making transfer-printed earthenware in 1853 under the name of E.
Challinor & Co.
Edward S.
Challinor was born in 1877.
He visited the family pottery many times as a youngster and is said to have begun his apprenticeship at age seventeen.
He served as an apprentice with the Royal Doulton Potteries in Burslem.
He also studied at the Newcastle School of Arts in Staffordshire which was an auxiliary of the South Kensington School of Art in London.
In 1903 he came to America to seek employment.
Challinor found work in Chicago working for Pickard.
Challinor was not only an artist on china but he was also an accomplished musician, singer, and actor.
It is believed that Challinor mixed his own colors, and that he never passed the secret on to others, and that the formulas died with him.
Challinor became a
master of the china decorating medium, especially in his later pastel-colored scenes.
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