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1930s Susie Cooper Green Tango Kestrel Coffee Set
£285.00
A good 1930s Art Deco Susie Cooper coffee set decorated with green and black banding. Restraint, fitness for purpose and a careful consideration for shape and pattern are Susie Cooper hallmarks, to which this rare 1930s Kestrel shape coffee set in Cooper's much sort-after Green Tango pattern stands testament. The Susie Cooper trademark 1930s signature leaping deer logo is on the underside of each piece, and the set includes a coffee pot, milk jug, and six coffee cans & saucers.
History
Susie Cooper (1902 – 95) was at the forefront of British Industrial Ceramics for over sixty years, and is now recognised as one of the most important and influential ceramic designers of her generation. She revolutionised tableware in the 1930s by producing elegantly designed, functional and cost-conscious earthenwares. Cooper took her cues from the current trend for modernism. Friend and architect Serge Chermayeff - co-designer of the 1935 modernist De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill - was one such influence. The emphasis was on functionalism, the dynamic relationship between form and colour, and the restraint that should be practiced with regard to decoration. Few of the Staffordshire potteries found favour with this new approach. Susie Cooper was the exception. Her early works, such as this Kestrel Green Tango coffee set, are now much sort after by collectors.
Material: glazed earthenware
Manufacturer: Susie Cooper pottery, Wood & Sons Ltd, UK
Design shape: Kestrel
Year of manufacture: c.1938
Coffee pot dimensions: Diameter 10.5cm Height 19cm Width from spout to handle 17cm
Condition: the coffee pot has a tiny chip underneath the side of the spout, and a chip about 1cm long on the rim inside where the lid sits (unseen with the lid on) - see images. There is some staining to the glaze on the one lower side of the coffee pot, and some crazing, which is very common with 1930s Susie Cooper tea and coffee wares. All of which is reflected in the price. Please note it is without a sugar bowl.
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