{{Short description|Art Nouveau pewter ware designed for Liberty of London}} {{about|the pewterware made for Liberty & Co|the king of post-Roman Glywysing|Tewdrig}}
'''Tudric''' is a brand name for pewterware made by W. H. Haseler's of Birmingham for Liberty & Co. of London. In 1899 Liberty began to produce the Cymric gold and silver ranges of domestic ware and jewellery inset with semi-precious stones.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Olsen |first=J. |title=Towards Modernism : the Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa |publisher=Te Papa Press |year=2025 |isbn=9780995138476 |location=Welington |pages=172}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Bury |first=Shirley |date=1977 |title=New light on the Liberty metalwork venture |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41806013 |journal=The Bulletin of the Decorative Arts Society 1890-1940 |volume=1 |pages=14-27 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> From 1903 Haseler's began producing Tudric pewter ware for Liberty's and continued to the 1930s though the arrangement between Liberty's and Haseler's ended in 1926.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Art Nouveau and Art Deco pewter |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1854870/FULLTEXT01.pdf |access-date=23 March 2026}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Bury |first=Shirley |date=1963 |title=The Liberty Metalwork Venture |url=https://pewtersociety.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Notes_on_Liberty_Tudric_-__Art_Nouveau_Pewter.......pdf |journal=Architectural Review |pages=108-111}}</ref> Tudric ware included teapots, caddies, jugs, tankards, dishes, photo frames, candlesticks, napkin rings, powder boxes and vases among other things.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Notes on Liberty Tudric & "Art Nouveau" Pewter |url=https://pewtersociety.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Notes_on_Liberty_Tudric_-__Art_Nouveau_Pewter.......pdf |access-date=23 March 2026 |website=The Pewter Society}}</ref> The designs use Art Nouveau and Celtic Revival styles.
Designers included Archibald Knox, A.H. Jones, Bernard Cuzner, Arthur Gaskin, David Veasey, Reginald (Rex) Silver, Jessie M. King and Oliver Baker.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />
Tudric pewter differentiated from other pewters with better quality, it had higher content of silver.{{Citation needed|date=March 2026}} Pewter is traditionally known as "the poor man's silver".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pewter - Poor Man's Silver |url=http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/storydetail.php?irn=811&master=1067 |access-date=27 March 2026 |website=Hull Museums Collection}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:'Bollelin' pewter plate designed by Archibald Knox.jpg|'Bollelin' pewter & enamel plate (design 044). File:Inkwell designed by Archibald Knox.jpg|Inkwell with typical hammered finish (design 0404). File:Tudric Inkwell.jpg|Pewter inkwell with enamel (design 0141) File:Tudric Clock.JPG|Clock (design 0366) File:Archibald Knox Tudric Pewter Vase 0323.jpg|Vase (design 0323) </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:Art Nouveau Category:Celtic art Category:Celtic Revival Category:Decorative arts Category:Antiques
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