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•VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) 'View from the Drawing Room, Crichel House', flowers in a vase by a window, with garden and graveyard beyond, inscribed verso "Raymond Mortim......Long Crichel", oil on canvas, 34.5cm x 24cmRaymond Mortimer CBE (1895-1980) was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor. He was a friend of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, and was involved in a long-term relationship with her husband, author and British diplomat Harold Nicolson. A resident of Bloomsbury, Mortimer was also associated with the coterie of English writers, philosophers, and artists who frequently met in the London district. Mortimer's residences, 6 Gordon Place and 6 Endsleigh Place, contained numerous Bloomsbury Group works, such as curtains designed by Duncan Grant and a group of murals executed by Grant and Vanessa Bell, later donated by Mortimer to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Raymond Mortimer joined the three original owners of Long Crichel House, Wimborne, friends Edward Sackville West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys, as one of the residents of the 'male salon', after World War II.Duke's are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in identifying this composition.
•TIMO SARPANEVA FOR IITTALA: AN "ORKIDEA" ORCHID GLASS VASE, c.1954, freeform, steam blown clear glass, signed marks, 24.5cm high This vase was originally designed in 1953 and exhibited at the 1954 Triennale di Milano, where it was awarded the Grand Prix for outstanding design. Also awarded "Most Beautiful Object of the Year" by House Beautiful magazine in 1954
POOLE POTTERY: A CARTER STABLER ADAMS 'TRADITIONAL' VASE, cylindrical ribbed form with everted rim, shape no. 958, decorated in the FT pattern by Marian Heath, 19cm high, another oviform vase, YR pattern, 22.5cm high and one other in the CC pattern, 18cm high, painted and impressed marks (3)
POOLE POTTERY: A RARE TRIAL VASE, shape 660, decorated in a spray Picotee glaze in tones of black, gray and pink, developed by Leslie Elsden, impressed marks, 29cm high Literature, Collecting Poole Pottery, Robert Prescott-Walker, Publ. Francis Joseph, London, page. 73, bottom-left for comparable vase
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