Quentin Bell (1910-1996), an early underglaze blue tinglaze ...

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117 - Quentin Bell (1910-1996), an early underglaze blue tinglaze pottery bowl, possibly to a Vanessa Bell...

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£4,200

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Quentin Bell (1910-1996), an early underglaze blue tinglaze pottery bowl, possibly to a Vanessa Bell design, dated 1936, painted to the interior with a flowerhead design, the underside with lappets and a keywork border, inscribed Mark Quentin Bell 1936 with a circular symbol, 27cm diameter

Provenance: gifted by the Bell family to a Charleston Farmhouse housekeeper, thence by family descent.

More Information

Structurally good with acceptable crazing; suggestion of a hairline crack inward from rim, approx. 4cm, affecting only the glaze and perhaps a manufacturing characteristic.

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Auction Date:

12th Dec 23 at 10am GMT