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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).
Ceramic cup, saucer, plate from the "Moby Dick" pattern. Ceramic dinnerware set. Vernon Kilns, Los Angeles, 1939. -- RBML, Rockwell Kent Collection (See fuller description below.) |
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Kent produced three patterns for dinnerware manufacture between 1938 and
1940. The "Moby Dick" pattern uses designs of whaling ships and whales different
from the Kent drawings in the famous edition of the Melville novel published in
1930. It was issued in a twelve-piece set.
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