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Ottoline Dinner Plate, Set of 4
A plate wide enough for a tagine spooned straight from the pot, without the food crowding the border. Rust and burnt sienna scrolls tumble around the rim, the dotted edging and underlining wave running in slate blue beneath them — the colours inverted from the Azure, the contrast sharper, more graphic, and all the more rewarding for it.
Tess Newall developed the motifs in this collection from English garden fireplaces and country houses, the Bloomsbury Group's painted interiors among them, alongside the Italian majolica and French faience collected by artists of that era on their travels.
Sold as a set of four, each plate is slightly different. Hand-painted in Portugal.
This collection ships internationally at tessnewall.com
Dimensions: D: 27cm ; 10.5in
Material: Hand-painted stoneware
Care: Dishwasher safe on low temperature
About the Maker
Art should enrich the routines of everyday life. That was the conviction of the Bloomsbury Group — and it is the starting point for the Ottoline Collection, designed in collaboration with Tess Newall. Developed between East Sussex and New York, the collection draws from the creative world of the Bloomsbury Group . Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant allowed painting to escape the frame entirely: spilling across walls, wardrobes, fireplaces, and ceramics. Tess Newall's studio sits a stone's throw from Charleston. Over nearly a decade she has painted murals inside some of Britain's most extraordinary buildings — an 18th-century orangery in Gloucestershire, a turreted room in the Old War Office overlooking Whitehall — learning how colour shapes atmosphere and how a room becomes a world. Her work is rooted in research: in the vernacular of folk painting, faience, and the decorated domestic object, in the idea that the visible hand of the maker brings joy in both creation and use. She doesn't believe in saving things for best.
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