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A Compton Pottery Beowulf Earthenware Jardiniere
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A Compton Pottery Beowulf Earthenware Jardiniere

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A Compton Pottery Beowulf Earthenware Jardiniere
Archibald Knox (surface losses) 48cm diam.
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拍品專文

"The Beowulf", so named by Liberty & Co. in their Book of Garden Ornaments" from about 1910, a terracotta jardiniere, is both ancient and modern. Though decorated with Knox's personal abstracted variation of the Celtic entrelac or "knot", the form of this monumental object harks back to far earlier times.

Cf. "Archibald Knox and Mary Seton Watts: Pioneers of 'Modern Celtic Art' Garden Pottery" by Veronica Franklin Gould in Archibald Knox, (ed) Martin, S., London: ArtMedia Press, 2001, pp. 76-84.