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Susie Cooper Blue Crescent Kestrel Coffee Set
£595.00
A good complete 1930s Art Deco Susie Cooper Blue Crescent Kestrel coffee set decorated with small scarffito crescents. 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 blue scarffito pattern stands testament. The Susie Cooper trademark 1930s signature leaping gazelle logo is on the underside of the coffee pot and milk jug, and the set includes a coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, six coffee cans and six saucers. The Sky blue is intense and the set is a rare one, and in wonderful condition. Hard to find these days.
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 Blue Crescent 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.1930
Coffee pot dimensions: Diameter 10.5cm Height 19cm Width from spout to handle 17cm
Condition: very good, and appears to have been barely used. If you had to find fault, there is a minuscule nick to the rim of one of the coffee cans, yet barely noticeable; and there is some fine crazing, particularly on the jug, which is very common with 1930s Susie Cooper tea and coffee wares. See all images.
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