£3,276
Auction: 12 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
watercolour and graphite on squared paper, depicting a stylised bird and foliate repeat pattern, signed verso C. F. A. VOYSEY/ 23 YORK PLACE W., and dated AUG. 23RD 1900, bears printed Tomkinsons Carpets Ltd. stamp
Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, Haslam & Whiteway, H. Blairman & Sons, London C.F.A. Voysey: Designs for Tomkinson & Adam Carpets, 2013, no. 20 ('Purple Bird and Vines')
Literature: Durant S. The Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey, Lutterworth Press 2017, p. 58 illus.
Note: The stylised birds used in this design are found in many of Voysey's works. In an interview with The Studio magazine in 1893, he stated "I do not see why the forms of birds may not be used, provided they are reduced to mere symbols...".