(Decorative Arts: Design since 1860, 23rd October 2019) § DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978) 'SAPHO', DESIGN FOR A DINNER PLATE watercolour and pencil, later framed with exhibition label verso 25.5cm diameter Provenance: Anthony d’Offay Sally Hunter Fine Art Limited, London Purchased by Lady Dundee Literature: Design & Decoration 1910-1960 (London: Spink, 1991), pp. 36-37. where designs from the service are illustrated Omega and after: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts, Thames & Hudson 1981, plate 49 illustrates the dinner service decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant on Wedgwood blanks Note: The current lot is a design for a plate, which formed a large dinner service, commissioned from Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant by Kenneth Clark the late Lord Clark in 1932. The Famous Women Dinner Service was a 50-piece ceramic dish set featuring portraits of famous women from history, completed between 1932 and 1934. The subjects ranged from Hollywood star Greta Garbo to the Queen of Sheba to Marian Bergeron, who in 1933 became the youngest-ever Miss America at age 15.
(Decorative Arts: Design since 1860, 23rd October 2019) § DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978) 'SAPHO', DESIGN FOR A DINNER PLATE watercolour and pencil, later framed with exhibition label verso 25.5cm diameter Provenance: Anthony d’Offay Sally Hunter Fine Art Limited, London Purchased by Lady Dundee Literature: Design & Decoration 1910-1960 (London: Spink, 1991), pp. 36-37. where designs from the service are illustrated Omega and after: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts, Thames & Hudson 1981, plate 49 illustrates the dinner service decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant on Wedgwood blanks Note: The current lot is a design for a plate, which formed a large dinner service, commissioned from Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant by Kenneth Clark the late Lord Clark in 1932. The Famous Women Dinner Service was a 50-piece ceramic dish set featuring portraits of famous women from history, completed between 1932 and 1934. The subjects ranged from Hollywood star Greta Garbo to the Queen of Sheba to Marian Bergeron, who in 1933 became the youngest-ever Miss America at age 15.
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