'Sea Tales' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith

'Sea Tales' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith, decorated with a galleon at full sail, in colours about title 'Sea Tales' in Eric Gill's Serif typeface, in oak frame, marks concealed, 53.5 x 36cm.

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 128 this tile panel illustrated.

Leslie Hayward & Paul Atterbury Poole Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 173 for a comparable example illustrated.