Sharp stars in Potteries
BASED in Stoke-on-Trent, auctioneers Louis Taylor (buyer’s premium 12.5 per cent) are better known for their ceramics than their pictures but their quarterly Fine sale held from June 14-16 was led by this Dorothea Sharp oil on canvas, right, Children with a Dog on a Summer’s Day.
The signed 19 1/2 x 23in (49 x 58cm) painting, which was consigned by a local Tunstall family, had, …