A Poole Pottery Freeform vase designed by Alfred Read and Guy Sydenham

A Poole Pottery Freeform vase designed by Alfred Read and Guy Sydenham, shape no.724, pattern PT, tapering cylindrical form with swollen and flaring asymmetric neck, painted with stylised butterfly motif in purple and green on a matt white ground, incised, printed and painted marks, 35.5cm. high

Provenance

British Art & Design, Woolley and Wallis Auctioneer's 23rd July 2008, lot 142

The Redstone Collection.

Literature

Leslie Hayward and Paul Atterbury Poole Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 107 for this shape and the original designs for the pattern illustrated.