Kookaburra flies into Cumbrian saleroom

Maud O’Reilly (1886-1971), a key figure in Queensland’s Arts & Crafts movement and a student of the LJ Harvey school, showed her pottery at a number of British exhibitions in the mid 1920s.

In 1926 she exhibited an 11in (27cm) slip-cast figure of a kookaburra, similar to this one shown a…

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