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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Coffee Pot and Cover

1933-4 (decorated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Prototype for a coffee set, unfired painted designs in oils and pencilled annotations on bone china blanks


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Coffee Pot
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Bone china, painted
Brief description
Prototype for a coffee set, pattern designed and painted by Ben Nicholson in London for E. Brain & Co ('Foley China'), using a blank made at the firm's Staffordshire factory, 1933-4
Physical description
Prototype for a coffee set, unfired painted designs in oils and pencilled annotations on bone china blanks
Gallery label
Prototypes for a coffee set England, decorated in London, 1933–4 Pattern designed and painted by Ben Nicholson for E. Brain & Co (‘Foley China’), using a blank made at the firm’s Staffordshire factory Unfired painted designs in oils and pencilled annotations on bone china blanks These prototypes relate to an adventurous project initiated by Thomas Fennemore, sales manager for ‘Foley China’. Fennemore commissioned tableware patterns from contemporary British artists. The painter Ben Nicholson produced two designs. The results were shown at Harrods in the exhibition ‘Modern Art for the Table’ in 1934.(26/02/2014)
Object history
These prototypes relate to an adventurous
project initiated by Thomas Fennemore,
sales manager for ‘Foley China’.
Fennemore commissioned tableware
patterns from contemporary British artists.
The painter Ben Nicholson produced two
designs. The results were shown at
Harrods in the exhibition ‘Modern Art for
the Table’ in 1934.
Lent to Marseilles: Musée Grobet-Labadie/Musée de la Faïence for 'De la couleur et du feu, céramiques d'artistes de 1885 à nos jours', 22nd June to 17th Sep. 2000
Bibliographic reference
ALun Graves, 'Ben Nicholson's designs for Foley China', in The Burlington Magazine, June 1998, pp386-390.
Collection
Accession number
C.100:1, 2-1996

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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