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© Dr Frances Marks
Date: 1930
Media: earthenware
Size: h(cm) : 5.6 cup x diam(cm) : 10.3 x w(cm) : 13 cup
Acquired: 2008; Gift; Dr Frances Marks
Accession Number: NMW A 39011
This cup and saucer is from a tea set designed in 1930. Haël's striking orange-red uranium glaze was one of Grete Marks's most distinctive achievements and was highly praised by critics at the 1929 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Breslau. This striking conical design has become a modernist icon, making a clear break with historical precedent and avoiding all surface decoration.
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