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LJ Harvey / Australia 1871–1949 / Vase: (The fox and the grapes) c.1920s / Slab built white clay body of swelling square profile, dipped brown clay and carved. Blue-green glaze / 21 x 9 x 9cm / Gift of the Reverends David and Bruce Noble 1992 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
LJ HarveyVase: (The fox and the grapes) c.1920
Not Currently on Display
LJ Harvey was the most important figure in the arts and craft movement in Queensland in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Wantage, Berkshire, in 1871, and migrated with his family to Queensland in 1874.
He was trained by English woodcarvers Edward G Madley and Cuthbert Vickers, and studied at the Brisbane Technical College under Joseph Clark and subsequently R Godfrey Rivers.
Harvey established a business as a wood and stone carver in 1892, which remained his livelihood until he took up a full-time teaching appointment in 1916 at the Central Technical College. Although he was most highly regarded in Brisbane for the quality of his woodcarving, he was also a distinguished modeller and potter.
A vase decorated with allamanda plants and butterflies and a bust of his daughter Elsie were presented to the Queensland Art Gallery after he retired from teaching in 1937.