Dora Lunn (1881-1955) A Ravenscourt Pottery stoneware vase, shouldered form, covered in a crystalline blue glaze, a Ravenscourt Pottery dish with chequered border, a smaller dish with an orange tree motif and a vase, a Stella Crofts Pottery dish modelled with a sea lion, a plaque modelled in low relief with a goat by Sylvie Nisbet, a Minton's panther covered in a matt black glaze, three other animals and two other pots, impressed Ravenscourt 27cm. high, (13) Provenance The David Coachworth Collection. Literature Oliver Watson British Studio Pottery The Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, Phaidon, page 215 catalogue number 475 for a comparable Ravenscroft vase, catalogue number 414.

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