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 W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- C9.1967
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate. Licensed by Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
- Share
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Places
Where the work was made
England
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 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
- 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
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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 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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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'The decorative vision 1912-1919', pg. 35-60, Sydney, 2005, 58 (colour illus.).
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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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