Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Photo © Courtauld
Photo © Courtauld
Maker
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
Title
Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Date of Production
1914 - 1918
Medium
Black-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Diameter: 25.1 cm
Object Number
O.1935.RF.176
Mode of Acquisition
Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
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.
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : mark : impressed into the base : Omega symbol within a square :
Provenance
Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935
Exhibition History
Special Display - Bloomsbury Art & Design, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/02/2017-20/09/2017
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, 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
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