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Circus dinner service
Artist: designed by Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970), made by WILKINSON A.J.
Location: Manchester Art Gallery
Date: 1934
Materials: earthenware, printed and painted in overglaze enamels with gilding
Dimensions: various
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £20,000)
Vendor: Grace Orbell
Review number: 3810 (1992)
Provenance:
Dame Gracie Fields; by descent Mrs Grace Orbell.
Description:
A twelve place dinner service, of which forty eight pieces survive. The pieces were decorated with scenes from the circus ranging from three acrobats inside a border of the crowd, with a clown opening the curtains, to a horse and trainer, a dancing bear, a girl on horseback and Paris the lion with Togare, his trainer.
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