Title
Tea-pot with boiling billies and gumtree design
(circa 1917)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Teapot with boiling billies and gumtree design
Teapot with repeated boiling billies and gumtree design - Place where the work was made
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England
- Date
- (circa 1917)
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware with slip and sgraffito decoration
- Dimensions
- 14.4 cm height; 6.3 cm diameter (base)
- Signature & date
Signed on base, incised "Macpherson". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr WG Preston the artist's widower 1967
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- C9.1967
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
England
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 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, Sydney, 01 Apr 1978–07 May 1978
Flora and Fauna - Australian Decorative Art from the Gallery's Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Apr 1998–20 Jun 1998
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
Margaret Preston retrospective, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 94. cat.no. C.2
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'The decorative vision 1912-1919', pg. 35-60, Sydney, 2005, 58 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards and Alisa de Torres, Australian decorative arts, Sydney, 1991, cover (colour illus.), 13. cat.no. 51. This object appears on the back cover of this publiciation.
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Jackie Menzies, 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
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