'Animal Books' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith

'Animal Books' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith, decorated with three alert gazelle in a grassland setting, in colours about title 'Animal Books' in Eric Gill's Serif typeface, in oak frame, marks concealed, 54 x 20.5cm (tiles)

Provenance

W.H. Smith Newsagents, Liverpool

Private collection

Exhibited

Art Deco by The Sea, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, 9th February-14th June 2020 and

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 11th July-10th October 2020, this tile panel.

Literature

Ghislaine Wood Art Deco by The Sea, Sainsbury Centre, page 121 figure 127 this tile panel illustrated.