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Title
Tea-pot with boiling billies and gumtree design
(circa 1917)
Details
Other Titles
Teapot with boiling billies and gumtree design
Teapot with repeated boiling billies and gumtree design
Date
(circa 1917)
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 W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1967
Location
Not on display
Accession number
C9.1967
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Margaret Preston
Tea-pot with boiling billies and gumtree design
Place
Where the work was made
England
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
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
- Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
Referenced in 4 publications
Bibliography
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.
Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 94. cat.no. C.2
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
Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'The decorative vision 1912-1919', pg. 35-60, Sydney, 2005, 58 (colour illus.).