Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate

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Maker

(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

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

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