Blue glazed side or fruit plate

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker

(ceramicist)
1866-1934
(ceramicist)

Title

Blue glazed side or fruit plate

Date of Production

1914 - 1918

Medium

Blue-glazed earthenware

Dimensions

Height: 2.9 cm
Diameter: 19.4 cm

Object Number

O.1935.RF.178

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

Label Text

Although presumably intended to be used as a service, Omega plates were a rare commodity as intimated by Virginia Woolf who wrote that if one were broken ‘all the shops in London may be searched in vain for its fellow’. Monochromatic glazes, such as this rich cobalt blue, ran counter to the highly decorative ceramics popular in Britain and Europe at the time.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : mark : impressed into the base : Omega symbol within a square :

Provenance

Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Post-Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops, The Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, East Sussex, 14/09/2019-19/01/2020
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
...More
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/1999-23/01/2000
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 18/01/1984-18/03/1984
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Literature

Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 57A
Art Made Modern - Roger Fry's Vision of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999-2000
cat. no. 212 (exhibited)
The Omega Workshops 1913 to 1919, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 1984
cat. no. C2.c

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