White tin-glazed coffee pot
Maker
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)
Title
White tin-glazed coffee pot
Date of Production
1918
Medium
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 17.3 cm
Width: 17.3 cm
Accession Number
O.1935.RF.174
Mode of Acquisition
Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
On display
Keywords
Related Works
Label Text
Fry regarded pottery as ‘essentially a form of sculpture’. This coffee pot is one of the more complex and sculptural forms undertaken by Fry, with its angular handle, rounded spout and inward-curving rim. The slight awkwardness of the result may be attributed equally to Fry’s experimental design ethos and his lack of technical competence in the medium.
Provenance
Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935
Exhibition History
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000 ...More
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery - Prints and Drawings Study Room, 01/08/1990-02/12/1990 ...Less
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000 ...More
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery - Prints and Drawings Study Room, 01/08/1990-02/12/1990 ...Less
Literature
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 56
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 215 (exhibited)
cat. no. 56
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 215 (exhibited)
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : incised : on base : Omega symbol within a square :
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