This is a highly collectable, large lamp base made by Margery Clinton at her Templelands Studio in Dunbar. These tall lamps by her are certainly harder to find. The decoration on the lamp is similar to the lustre leaves on my small cube pot - so I am dating this lamp as well to the mid-1980s.
It features on the exterior Clinton's typical and sophisticated lustre glazes. The main body is a dark midnight blue / black. It is decorated around the central section with blue lustre abstracted leaves - which are also speckled with gold lustres. Above the main body section is a stepped gold lustre section where the bulb holder is located. I have taken photographs of each side. The foot is simple and is dark blue / matt black in colour. I have taken lots of images for your inspection.
The lamp is signed near the area where the electric flex comes out of - again, as photographed.
It is in excellent vintage condition with no damage and has been rewired.
The lamp measures: 17 inches in height to the top of the bulb holder. The main body is 14 1/2 inches high by just over 5 1/2 inches. The depth of the body is just under 3 1/2 inches.
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HISTORY: Margery Clinton (1931–2005) was a specialist in reduction lustre glazes. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953 and was part of the Young Glasgow group, whose inaugural exhibition was held at the McLellan Galleries in 1958.
She undertook her postgraduate study at the Royal College of Art, London, researching reduction lustre glazes, an interest she later developed with great success.
She also undertook a number of notable architectural commissions later in her life, and her work with tiles was regarded as spectacular. She has been exhibited at the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Glasgow Art Gallery and the Royal Museum of Scotland.
An outstanding ceramic mural, The Physic Garden, commissioned for the tercentenary of Mary Erskine School, in Edinburgh, typifies her imaginative portrayal of medicinal herbal plants in six panels, in memory of the founder's husband, James Hair, an Edinburgh druggist. Appropriately, she chose Jonah and the Whale as the subject for a large decorative panel in the new Musselburgh Baths.
She was particularly interested in lustre glazing in Islamic art, and she travelled widely, attracting the attention of the Sultan of Oman and the King of Jordan. She executed commissions for both, and for the Duke of Edinburgh.
Currently, examples of her work are currently on display in the Scottish Design Galleries at the V&A Museum in Dundee, and the Museum of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.