VANESSA BELL | PLATE DESIGN: GEORGE ELIOT

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Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw

VANESSA BELL

1879-1961

PLATE DESIGN: GEORGE ELIOT

ink on paper

unframed (diameter): 17.5cm.; 6¾in.

framed: 29.5 by 29.5cm.; 11½ by 11½in.

Executed circa 1932.

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Davis & Langdale Company, Ltd., New York, where acquired by the present owners

The present work is a preliminary design for one of the fifty Famous Woman Dinner Service plates decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as part of a dinner service commissioned from the artists by Lord Kenneth Clark and his wife Jane Clark in 1932. The fifty plates are now in the collection of Charleston.

We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.