Clarice Cliff, Art Deco & Design - 18th March 2020

Lot 424

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962) a stoneware tea bowl dated 1924

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £1500

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Description

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962)

a stoneware tea bowl dated 1924, narrow, footed form, covered with a tan/oatmeal glaze painted with a simple abstract linear design in rust, impressed seal mark, Godden Reference label, 11.5cm. diam, 8cm. high

Provenance

The Godden Reference Collection.

Exhibited

30 Pots, Woolley and Wallis, 2019, catalogue number 15.

Literature

Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery, Yale/Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition catalogue, page 106 figure 52 for a reproduction from The Studio 1935, of a comparable, possibly the same, tea bowl from the Eumorfopoulos collection.