Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
The Famous Women Dinner Service, 1932-34
50 hand-painted Wedgwood blank ceramic plates
26 Plates: Diameter 25.5cm, Depth 2cm
24 Plates: Diameter 23.5cm, Depth 2cm
24 Plates: Diameter 23.5cm, Depth 2cm
Provenance
Commissioned by Kenneth Clark, Hampstead, Saltwood Castle, The Garden House; by descent to Nolwen de Janze Rice; by descent to Angelique Gaussend; Private Collection UK.Sold at auction 1999/2000; Auktionhaus Schleuter, Hamburg (auction house no longer extant)
Pruskin Gallery
Michael Sofaer Collection
Literature
Isabelle Anscombe, Omega and after: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts (Thames and Hudson, 1981), b/w ill. no. 49.R. Shone, Bloomsbury Portraits: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and their circle (2nd edi., Phaidon, 1993), pp. 230-231.
Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant (Chatto & Windus, 1997), pp. 321-322.
Frances Spalding, Vanessa Bell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983), p. 258.