Arts and Crafts - 21st June 2017

Lot 162

'Virginia Woolf' a Fulham Pottery portrait plate by Quentin Bell

Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1400

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Description

'Virginia Woolf' a Fulham Pottery portrait plate by Quentin Bell, marking the centennial of her birth, painted in red, blue, black and white, highlighted in gilt to the rim with inscription Virginia Woolf 1882-1982' incised Fulham Pottery Quentin Bell, no.3, 21cm. diam.

Catalogue Notes

This portrait plate is no.3 in a limited edition of three plates of which one is in the collection at Charleston Farmhouse (CHA/C286a).

Provenance

Eileen Dougall, worked at Charleston Farmhouse where the plate was purchased,

by descent to her son.