Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Maker
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)
Title
Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Date of Production
1914 - 1918
Medium
Black-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Diameter: 25.1 cm
Accession Number
O.1935.RF.176
Mode of Acquisition
Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Fry believed that single colour glazes were the perfect foil for food, writing ‘the plates are obviously waiting for salad – vivid green lettuce, shy radishes, and magenta beetroots! Fruit would be a Futurist feast in those black bowls’. Though the Omega Workshops had the ambition for production, their ceramics were only realised in small numbers.
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
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery - Prints and Drawings Study Room, 01/08/1990-02/12/1990
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, The Courtauld Gallery - Prints and Drawings Study Room, 01/08/1990-02/12/1990
Literature
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 57B
cat. no. 57B
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : mark : impressed into the base : Omega symbol within a square :
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