Description:

Premier Pottery

David Dee, Margaret Kerr (decorator)

A wheel thrown glazed earthenware vase with hand modelled and applied grape vine decoration c. 1930

inscribed to base D. Dee Premier Pottery

40cm high, 13cm diameter

Provenance:

Desiged for the Adelaide market, retailed by Horden's.

Illustrated: Australian Art Pottery: 1900 - 1950, Kevin Fahy, Keith Free, John Freeland & Andrew Simpson, Casuarina Press 2004, p. 132, plate. no. 105

Note: Margaret Kerr joined the Premier Pottery in late 1932, or early 1933, and introduced applied decoration on pots. She had taught ceramics at the Brunswick Technical School, and her work shows the influence of her contemporaries, Merric Boyd and Una Deerbon