'Harry Page' a fine Carter Stabler & Adams Poole Pottery Galleon architectural faience sculpture

'Harry Page' a fine Carter Stabler & Adams Poole Pottery Galleon architectural faience sculpture designed by Harold Stabler, the ship modelled at full sail on a rough sea, flat back, on stepped rectangular base, glazed in colours impressed Poole to stern, minor chips, 52.5cm. high.

Provenance

Bonhams (sale 31151), lot 31.

The Redstone Collection.

Literature

Leslie Haywood & Paul Atterbury Poole Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 42 for a comparable example illustrated. Designed circa 1925 and exhibited as the centrepiece of the Poole display at the International Exhibition of Industrial Art, Leipzig in 1927 - the Harry Page is derived from the local Dorset pirate Henry Paye. The Galleon became a symbol for the Poole Pottery.

Exhibited

An example of this Galleon faience sculpture was exhibited at the British Industries Fair, 1926.