SET OF SIX WEDGWOOD BONE CHINA 'PAOLOZZI' PLATES, 'VARIATIONS ON A GEOMETRIC THEME'
SET OF SIX WEDGWOOD BONE CHINA 'PAOLOZZI' PLATES, 'VARIATIONS ON A GEOMETRIC THEME' circa 1987, printed Portland vase marks, number 12 in a limited edition of 200 sets, designed in 1971 by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), dia: 10 1/2 in.; each plate enriched overall with geometric gilt banding, four dichromatic, one trichromatic and one white, mounted on two black velvet matts within oblong giltwood frames, h: 38 1/2 x w: 15 1/2 in., accompanied by an original pink Lucite storage box, dia: 10 3/8 in. (6)
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 14 February 2020, sale 3345B, lot 357.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 403.
Catalogue Note:
Professor Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, CBE, RA was a Scottish graphic artist and sculptor, known as one of the pioneers of Pop Art. Previously a surrealist, in the 1960s he produced a series of striking abstract geometric silk screen prints (the medium which inspired the design of these plates). A public and widely known geometric design by Paolozzi is the mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, London. For another set of six see, Skinner's Boston, 16 July 2005, sale 2280, lot 289. For two examples from the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston see, Robin Reilly, 'Wedgwood The New Illustrated Dictionary', p. 305, pl. 81.
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SET OF SIX WEDGWOOD BONE CHINA 'PAOLOZZI' PLATES, 'VARIATIONS ON A GEOMETRIC THEME' circa 1987, printed Portland vase marks, number 12 in a limited edition of 200 sets, designed in 1971 by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), dia: 10 1/2 in.; each plate enriched overall with geometric gilt banding, four dichromatic, one trichromatic and one white, mounted on two black velvet matts within oblong giltwood frames, h: 38 1/2 x w: 15 1/2 in., accompanied by an original pink Lucite storage box, dia: 10 3/8 in. (6)
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 14 February 2020, sale 3345B, lot 357.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 403.
Catalogue Note:
Professor Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, CBE, RA was a Scottish graphic artist and sculptor, known as one of the pioneers of Pop Art. Previously a surrealist, in the 1960s he produced a series of striking abstract geometric silk screen prints (the medium which inspired the design of these plates). A public and widely known geometric design by Paolozzi is the mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, London. For another set of six see, Skinner's Boston, 16 July 2005, sale 2280, lot 289. For two examples from the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston see, Robin Reilly, 'Wedgwood The New Illustrated Dictionary', p. 305, pl. 81.
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