Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Tea-pot with boiling billies and gumtree design
- Other titles:
- Teapot with boiling billies and gumtree design
Teapot with repeated boiling billies and gumtree design - Place of origin
-
England
- Year
- (circa 1917)
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware with slip and sgraffito decoration
- Dimensions
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14.4h x 6.3cm diam.(base)
- Signature & date
- Signed on base, incised "Macpherson". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1967
- Accession number
- C9.1967
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (4)
-
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 58 (colour illus.).
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Alisa de Torres (Author), Australian decorative arts, Domain, 1991, cover (colour illus.), 13. cat.no. 51. This object appears on the back cover of this publiciation.
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 94. cat.no. C.2
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Project 24: Cicadas and Gumnuts -The Society of Arts and Crafts 1906-1935, Sydney, 1978. cat.no. 95; titled "Teapot with repeated boiling billies and gumtree design"; Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Exhibition history (5)
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Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968.
Project 24 - Cicadas and Gumnuts: The Society of Arts and Crafts 1906-1935 (1978), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Apr 1978–07 May 1978.
Flora and Fauna - Australian Decorative Art from the Gallery's Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Apr 1998–20 Jun 1998.
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005.
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006.
