Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Maker
(ceramicist)
1866-1934
1866-1934
Title
Black-glazed dinner or dessert plate
Date of Production
1914 - 1918
Medium
medium : material : earthenware (mould-made) & black-glaze
Dimensions
Diameter: 25 cm
Accession Number
O.1958.PD.255
Mode of Acquisition
Pamela Diamand, gift, 1958
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
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
Pamela Diamand Gift, 1958
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
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2009-20/09/2009
Literature
Beyond Bloomsbury - Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009
cat. no. 57C
cat. no. 57C
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : mark : impressed into the base : Omega symbol within a square :
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