Dedham Pottery vase hand thrown by Hugh Cornwall Robertson. It has a deep caramel brown to black glaze with blue and white highlights dripping over the heavy bulbous form and exposing the high fire clay at the lip. It measures 7 3/8 inches in tall and 4 1/2 inches in diameter at the widest. Marked with a hand incised mark and a conjoined HCR. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, repairs, or firing flaws, just the typical clay shrinkage lines or crazing to the lip and grinding chips to the foot. Hugh Robertson was fascinated by Asian ceramics and glazes, in particular the Chinese oxblood red. Often called experimental, this work is really Hugh's true art pottery and the famous crackle dinnerware was made to keep the firm afloat. He died in 1908. A good piece of Dedham with a great glaze.