Gordine travelled widely in southeast Asia in 1930–31 and her work of this period was influenced by her experiences. This seated figure, Pagan, was begun by Gordine in her studio in Johor and finished in England. It was placed in the circular bay in the Gallery soon after Dorich House was completed in 1936.
The model was an RAF fighter pilot, Squadron Leader Hedleigh ‘Bobby’ St George Bond (1918-84), who flew a Spitfire during the Battle of Britain and later flew with the Desert Air Force in the Middle East.
Dame Dorothy Tutin (1931-2001) was an actress of stage and screen whose film and TV credits include The Beggar’s Opera (1953), A Tale of Two Cities (1958); The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and The Shooting Party (1985). She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and made her […]
The sitter was a young man named Chia-Chu Chang (1902-85). Chia-Chu Chang was born in Jiading, near Shanghai. His father was a doctor and a philanthropist who collected ancient Chinese art. In the early 1920s he was sent to America to learn English and studied at Clark College in Massachusetts and at Columbia University in […]
The Gardner Porcelain Factory was established by Francis Gardner in 1766 in Verbilky, near Moscow. The sense of national pride aroused by the French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as The Patriotic War of 1812, affected the themes and subjects explored in porcelain design. The Imperial Porcelain Factory and Gardner Factory were among those […]
A commemorative plate with a border of flowers and central Soviet Revolutionary design, designed by Pyotr v Vyechegegzhanin
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This block-printed textile, in cotton and rayon, was designed by Duncan Grant for Allan Walton Textiles in 1932. The curtain was found in a bag at Dorich House soon after Gordine’s death. It does not appear in any surviving photographs of the interiors, so a mystery remains as to whether or where it was hung.
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