Faience Panels
Faience Panels

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Dobson’s relief panels on the riverfront façade frame the Hay’s Wharf building’s principal rooms – formerly the directors’ common room and board room – two floors centrally placed amongst three. Dobson has framed the three bays of these two grand floors with 39 gold faience high relief panels bordered in black granite. The panels are deployed in four vertical strips of nine square panels with three oblong panels between the tops of the strips. In each of the three oblong panels is represented a semi-reclining nude (male-female-male), representing, Industry, Capital and Labour The square panels have representations of crates, barrels, drums, jars, and cases. All the panels, square and oblong, are linked by chains and a concertina-like ribbon of brick shapes.

Title

Faience Panels

Date

1930

Medium

Doulton faience

Accession number

SE1_AS_S106

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Hay’s Wharf Companies

Work type

Panel

Owner

St Olaf House

Custodian

St Olaf House

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II* (England and Wales)

Listing date

13/05/71

Access

at all times

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Located at

Tooley Street, Bermondsey

SE1 2PR

Located at St Olaf House (former Hay’s Wharf Companies Head Office), on the frontage overlooking the Thames.