Made in Britain
Made in Britain
Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
Lot Closed
September 16, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
2,400 - 3,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
VANESSA BELL
1879-1961
PLATE DESIGN: GEORGE ELIOT
ink on paper
unframed (diameter): 17.5cm.; 6¾in.
framed: 29.5 by 29.5cm.; 11½ by 11½in.
Executed circa 1932.
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Davis & Langdale Company, Ltd., New York, where acquired by the present owners
New York, Davis & Langdale Company Inc, Works on Paper, 1st October - 9th November 2002, cat. no.2, illustrated.
The present work is a preliminary design for one of the fifty Famous Woman Dinner Service plates decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as part of a dinner service commissioned from the artists by Lord Kenneth Clark and his wife Jane Clark in 1932. The fifty plates are now in the collection of Charleston.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.