A rare Feint format: "Shells" designed and painted 1947 for "Jo" Fakhry, Megan Martin

Article from Vol 37 no 2, May 2015

A rare Feint format: "Shells" designed and painted 1947 for "Jo" Fakhry, Megan Martin

Abstract:

This soft-paste porcelain mug, 8.7 cm high and 9 cm diameter, is painted in overglaze enamels on a Wedgwood “Barlaston” blank dated 1947. Feint’s choice of this Wedgwood form, together with the incorporation of the date 1947 and the letters J F as key elements in the design, suggests an awareness of the notable commemorative and other mugs that English artist Eric Ravilious (1903–42) designed for Wedgwood in the late 1930s.1

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