This bowl was decorated by Louise Powell, with a stylised acanthus leaf pattern in dark green hand-painted on a Wedgwood blank. See C256a for a similar plate.
Louise Powell (née Lessore) was a painter and illustrator, who, along with her husband Alfred, was a significant figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. Alongside Wedgwood pottery, Louise Powell painted furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley; she was a student of Edward Johnston and briefly worked as an assistant to Graily Hewitt, with whom she completed the manuscript of Virgil begun by William Morris for Fairfax Murray. She was active in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and organised rooms at the 1916 Exhibition held at Burlington House.
