Eric Bryce Carter Batlow Apple Bookends
A pair of historically important Eric Bryce Carter bookends, circa 1935, each moulded in high relief as a cluster of Batlow apples on a leafy bough, incised 'E. Bryce Carter Sydney 1788-1938', 4.13 in. high, 3.94 in. wide, 3.94 in. deep, Other Notes, These bookends celebrate the sesquicentenary centenary of New South Wales. In 1934 mother and son Emily and Eric Carter established the Art Pottery Shop in Sydney Arcade, King Street, Sydney, selling imported and local goods, as well as their own pottery. Eric was particularly well known for his thickly potted and heavily decorated gum nut pottery.
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- Incised - A record of a name, date or inscription, or a decoration scratched into a surface, usually of a glass or ceramic item with a blunt instrument to make a coarse indentation. Compare with engraving where the surface is cut with a sharp instrument such as a metal needle or rotating tool to achieve a fine indentation.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
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