Design - Day One - 19th October 2022
Lot 243
'Animal Books' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £850
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Description
'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.