A fine Wedgwood bowl painted by Alfred Powell

A fine Wedgwood bowl painted by Alfred Powell, the interior painted with rooks nesting in a tree, the exterior with buildings in a landscape, with footbridges in the foreground, in colours impressed marks, painted artist monogram and 756, exhibition label 35.5cm. diam.

Exhibited

Crafts of the Cotswolds Exhibition, Cheltenham, 1951, catalogue number 285

Provenance

Mr H. K. Gimson

(Humphrey Kitson Gimson was nephew of Ernest Alfred Gimson).

Private collection

Literature

Maureen Batkin Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, Richard Dennis Publications, page 148 plate 353 for a comparable Rookery scene.

The Harriman Judd Collection of British Art Pottery, January 22 2001, lot 415 for the above bowl.