Tile: c.33-2017

Maker(s)

Decorator: Piper, John
Maker: Fulham Pottery

Entities

• Tile

Categories

• Stoneware

Description

Stoneware tile, glazed and printed with a stylized head

Square stoneware tile, decorated with over-glaze tri-colour print in black, burnt umber and green. A stylised image of a head, with long burnt umber hair, is superimposed with a green heart or circle and set between green dashes to the left side and a black border to the right. Signature printed in black lower right. Reverse and sides flat and unglazed.

Notes

History note: Purchased by donor when new from Tate Gallery, 15 February 1984, price £15

Legal notes

Given by Jacob Simon, 2017

Place(s) associated

• Fulham ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2017-11-20) by Simon, Jacob

Dating

20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date: AD 1983

Note

Fulham Pottery, originally founded by John Dwight in 1672, passed through various hands after it was sold by C.J.C.Bailey in 1891. In the mid-twentieth century it was a supplier of ceramic materials as well as making specialist pieces, working with artists such as Constance Spry and Piper, whose work included a range of hand-painted ceramic pieces for a special exhibition shown at Dan Klein in London in 1982.

John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (1903 –1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer, notably of stained glass at Coventry and other cathedrals. In Cambridge, his stained glass designs can be found at Robinson College and at St Peter’s Church. Babraham. Piper often worked with others, including John Betjeman and Ben Nicholson. From c.1968-1985 he collaborated with the potter Geoffrey Eastop at Fawley Bottom, near his home; Eastop made the pots and Piper decorated them. In later life he produced many limited-edition prints.

Produced for sale alongside the exhibition ‘John Piper at the Tate Gallery’, 1983.

School or Style

Modernism