'Harpy Eagle' a large Carter Stabler & Adams Poole Pottery stoneware eagle designed by Harold

'Harpy Eagle' a large Carter Stabler & Adams Poole Pottery stoneware eagle designed by Harold Stabler, designed in 1916, modelled perched on a rocky outcrop, glazed in shades of brown, cream and white, indistinct signature Harold Stabler and date to side of base, glaze faults, glaze loss to the base, 65cm. high

Provenance

The Poole Pottery Museum & Archive Christie's South Kensington, 31st March 2004 lot 63.

The Redstone Collection.

Literature

Report on the Industrial Arts, International Exhibition of Modern Decorative & Industrial Arts, Paris, 1925, 138M for a comparable figure illustrated

British Art & Design 1900-1960, Victoria & Albert Museum, page 78 & 79 for a comparable figure illustrated.

Leslie Hayward and Paul Atterbury Poole Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 40 for a comparable Poole Pottery example illustrated. An example of this figure was shown at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 in Paris.

Jennifer Haskins The Poole Potteries, Barrie & Jenkins, page 118 for a comparable figure (V&A Collecton).