‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962) a stoneware tea bowl made for Bernard Rackham

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962)

a stoneware tea bowl made for Bernard Rackham, dated 1930, footed form, painted with a simple flower design in rust on a pale oatmeal ground, the rim incised Bernard Rackham his Tea Bowl 1930, impressed seal mark, 8cm. diam.

Catalogue notes

Bernard Rackham (1876-1964) was keeper in charge of the Ceramics Department at the Victoria & Albert museum (from 1914 to 1938) and a supporter of Staite Murray's work which he reviewed in The Studio Yearbook in 1917.

Exhibited

30 Pots, Woolley and Wallis, 2019, catalogue number 24.