Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

Design for a dinner service for Jane and Kenneth Clark; Queen Victoria

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Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Design for a dinner service for Jane and Kenneth Clark; Queen Victoria
inscribed 'Victoria' (lower centre)
pencil, watercolour, brush and black ink, circular
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam.
Executed circa 1932

Sale room notice

Signed 'V Bell' (lower right).

Lot Essay

The present work is one of many studies of famous women in history painted by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell in preparation for a painted dinner service for Kenneth and Jane Clark. The service was produced by Wedgwood in 1933.

We are very grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance cataloguing this lot.

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