Design - Day One - 19th October 2022
Lot 244
'Sea Tales' a Carter's Poole Pottery tile panel made for W H Smith
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1000
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Description
'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.