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Saucer

ca.1914 (made)
Artist/Maker
Carter, Stabler & Adams Ltd (made)
Fry, Roger Eliot (designed)
Place of origin
Poole (made)

Saucer, tin-glazed earthenware

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Saucer
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin-Glaze
Brief description
Saucer, tin-glazed earthenware, designed by Roger Fry, made at the factory of Carter, Stabler & Adams for the Omega Workshops, ca. 1914
Physical description
Saucer, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Height: 2.0cm (maximum)
  • Diameter: 14.2cm (maximum)
Gallery label
'46. Part of a Tableware Set
Designed by Roger Fry (British, 1866-1934)
Made by Carter & Co., Poole, Dorset, Great Britain, for the Omega Workshops, about 1914
Earthenware
Partly bequeathed by Margaret Bulley
Misc.2 (55)-1934, Circ.173-1964

Roger Fry, art critic and founder of the Omega Workshops, valued especially evidence of the hand process in pots thrown on the wheel. No cleaning up of excess clay was permitted; instead he had moulds made which repeated the irregularities and made the Omega pottery available in limited commercial production.'
Credit line
Given by Mrs Margaret H. Armitage (née Bulley)
Bibliographic references
  • Gerstein, Alexandra (ed.), Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19 London : The Courtauld Gallery, 2009 No. 51-55
  • Adamson, Glenn, Martina Droth and Simon Olding (ed.s) Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery. New Haven, London, 2017 p. 278, 279
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
MISC.2:55/F2-1934

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Record createdSeptember 7, 2011
Record URL
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