Lot 252A, Kenneth and Ann Clark - stoneware models of houses and street settings c.1983, manor house 40cm x 36cm
Kenneth and Ann Clark - stoneware models of houses and street settings c.1983, each hand modelled and painted in colours, comprising a domed manor house, two, three and four storey terraced houses, people at tables, street lamps, walls and shrubs, manor house 40cm x 36cm
Estimate £400-600
Provenance: Specially commissioned from Kenneth and Ann Clark for a Brighton retailer in 1983.
In the 1950s he founded Kenneth Clark Ceramics in London. This company, which relocated to a picturesque setting in Lewes, East Sussex in 1989, operated for more than 50 years. Many of its tiles are now collectors' items. With his wife, Ann, whom he married in 1954, Kenneth Clark formed a dynamic working duo. Ann created the imagery for the company's extensive and striking tile designs, while Kenneth Clark, whose work was more abstract, provided the context.In his time Kenneth Clark also served as chairman of the Society of Designer Craftsmen was appointed MBE in 1990 and awarded the Society of Designer Craftsmen's Centennial.
The largest square model of a manor house has a removable square section and lantern at the top, one corner of this panel has been broken and restuck and one of the figures on the top is lacking its head, there is some slight firing cracks to the structure on the inside of this model.
There is a model of three figures at table - one lacking its head, some of the fir trees with tiny losses to the pottery shards.
The remainder are in good condition.
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Sold for £550