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Piping Faun

Roundel
1914 (designed), 1914 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Roundel of stoneware, buff coloured and covered with white slip and semi-matt clear glaze, and the raised rim is decorated with tied bundles of laurel leaves interspaced with clusters of flowers, and in the centre a prancing faun plays on pan pipes.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Piping Faun (assigned by artist)
  • Dancing Faun (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, cast, and covered with white slip and semi-matt clear glaze
Brief description
'Piping Faun' roundel of stoneware, buff coloured and covered with white slip and semi-matt clear glaze, and in the centre a prancing faun plays on pan pipes, designed and modelled by Phoebe Stabler, made by Carter, Stabler & Adams Ltd., Poole, 1914.
Physical description
Roundel of stoneware, buff coloured and covered with white slip and semi-matt clear glaze, and the raised rim is decorated with tied bundles of laurel leaves interspaced with clusters of flowers, and in the centre a prancing faun plays on pan pipes.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 38cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'H Sp LONDON' [within a rectangle with an image of Hammersmith Bridge] (Maker's identification, impressed)
  • '3.17.6. Phoebe Stabler 1914' (Maker's identification, on paper label, incised)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Ceramics and Glass Collection Object Information File
Collection
Accession number
C.61-2002

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Record createdSeptember 8, 2003
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