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Ceramic designs

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1883-1915

Title

Ceramic designs

Date of Production

1913

Medium

graphite and watercolour with added gum arabic on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 25.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.PD.79

Mode of Acquisition

Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The French painter Doucet was a member of the Omega Workshops between 1912 and 1914. After he was killed fighting in the First World War, Roger Fry lamented his loss, expressing ‘I worked better with him than anyone else’. This design for a tea set, including a teapot and milk jugs resembling chickens, expresses the artist’s sense of humour. Doucet writes in French on the sheet that he found the idea for this design quite amusing. It does not seem to have been realised as a ceramic.

Provenance

Roger Fry (1866-1934); by descent to his daughter Pamela Diamand; Pamela Diamand Gift 1958

Exhibition History

Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017

Duncan Grant in Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 06/12/2003-14/02/2004

Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 01/08/1990-02/12/1990 ...More

El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, 01/09/1986-01/10/1986

The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984 ...Less

Literature

The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
cat. no. D38

El Grup de Bloomsbury, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, 1986
cat. no. 55
ill.

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
Appendix, no. 30
ill. on p. 172

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: “TRUSLOVE & HANSON’S / SLOANE BANK / LONDON”. [see https://www.jstor.org/stable/40371754?seq=1]

Inscription: Recto, all graphite: upper left, with arrow: “ouverture”; upper centre: “pot avec couvercle”; upper right corner: “plan du couvercle”; upper right: “couvercle”; lower left: “mieux sans dessin”; lower right: “Ceci est une idée assez amusant je crois / pour service a thé par exemple; / ce pot là serait pot à lait.”; lower right: “idée de théiere”; lower right corner: “BAS”. Verso: lower left, blue ink: “HHF. 263”.

Collector's mark: none.

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