British Art Pottery - 3rd December 2024
Lot 70
A charming Wedgwood Pottery tea set for six by Alfred Powell, pattern no.5573, painted with panels
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2520
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Description
A charming Wedgwood Pottery tea set for six by Alfred Powell, pattern no.5573, painted with panels of English wild flowers, including bluebells, fritillaries, and cornflowers, painted in colours, comprising; teapot and cover, milk-jug and slop basin, sugar basin and cover, six cups, saucers and side plates and two sandwich plates, printed Wedgwood (26)
Provenance
Alfred Powell thence by descent in the Powell family
Catalogue notes
This beautiful tea service was painted by Alfred Powell for his nephew Oliver’s wife Elizabeth, following his stay at the Powell family farm in the village of Hawstead in west Suffolk in the summer of 1949, when he came down from London with his daughter Catherine to recuperate after a severe bout of shingles affecting both his eyes.
The gift was in gratitude for Elizabeth’s kindness and friendship; also - surely - in acknowledgement of their shared love of English wild flowers. These pieces have stayed in the same family in English countryside which inspired him.