Castle Hedingham Pottery - Edward Bingham
Castle Hedingham Pottery - Edward Bingham
Although little known outside of the county of Essex, these studio pottery pieces by Edward Bingham [1829- 1914], (son and father of the two other family members bearing the same name) dates from the late 19th century (circa 1880 – 1890) and made at the family pottery near to the Norman landmark of Castle Hedingham in Essex; hence the name, Castle Hedingham Pottery.
Adopting medieval or Tudor inspired designs with rather fanciful dates, inscriptions and decoration from those earlier periods, these eccentrically styled pieces have become increasingly popular with devotees and collectors of art pottery. Pieces of Castle Hedingham are in the V&A Museum and collecting has become quite popular in the USA., where the family eventually settled in the early 1900s.
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Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham – The Essex Jug
The largest and arguably the most decorative of pieces produced by Edward Bingham – an 1896 example of which is housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge, being part of the Dr J W L Glaisher collection.
This particular example of The Essex Jug is by far the prettiest we have seen and is certainly of museum quality, pre-dating that in the Fitzwilliam Museum (mentioned above) having the following, ‘Essex 1894’ and ‘Edward Bingham, Castle Hedingham’ and a stylised castle incised on the base. Depicting three medallion scenes of Essex, The Dunmow Flitch trial and, Boadicea, with extremely attractive and numerous applied decorative motifs, plaques and fine detail with blue accents amongst other relief and heraldic emblems, badges, coins and agricultural features such as ears of corn, as well as having, ‘The Essex Jug’ inscribed around the foot of the jug. The medallion showing the Dunmow Flitch trial displays a banner inscribed ‘Live and Love’ which may well have given rise to The Essex Jug being given as a wedding gift in the past.
Condition: Exceptional
Size: 15¾”/40cm High
Price: £425.00
Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham – Candlestick
A two-tiered candlestick in a brown glazed ground with applied handles of blue rope twists – four on the top tier and two on the lower tier - which also bears the date of 1649 with an applied ‘M’ on the reverse. The Castle Hedingham model and banner bearing E Bingham is applied to the inside of the lower tier. A variation of this design with a flattened collar can be found in the V&A Museum.
Condition: Excellent.
Size: 8”/20cm.
Price: £100.00
Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham – Commemorative Charles ll Tankard
A green glazed tankard or commemorative drinking vessel for Charles II, bearing a raised C and R flanking the crown above the date of 1646, with the Castle model above a banner bearing E W Bingham and incised detail of “England No. 32.” on the base.
Condition: Excellent.
Size: 7”/17cm High.
Price: £75.00
Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham – Little Brown Jug
A charming and attractively shaped, unglazed, little brown jug with a floral motif and inscription, ‘Erth I am it is most trew, dispys mee not for soe b u’. Bearing the Castle model above a banner bearing E Bingham on the base, this may indeed be a very early piece of Castle Hedingham, as it was not until the mid-1880s that glazes were used.
Condition: Excellent.
Size: 6”/15cm High.
Price: £85.00
Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham - Wall Pocket
Decorated with mainly yellow and blue floral design on a green background with a yellow chain-link terminating at a rope twist above the distinctive Castle Hedingham model and incised verso, ‘Made in England. No. 118’.
Condition: Slight crazing with small glaze loss at the base flower and small chip to right-hand side on lower leaf edge – see photos.
Size: 11”/28cm High.
Price: £65.00
Castle Hedingham by Edward Bingham -
Hedingham Castle Keep - Watercolour by Richard Caink
A signed (l.r.) and nicely framed watercolour by Richard Caink of Hedingham Castle Keep.
Dimensions: H 22”/56cm, W 19”/48cm.
Price: £45.00
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