Plate of printed and glazed earthenware, Eric Ravilious for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Barlaston, 1954. A blue and black transfer printed design on light grey background, the centre depicting a sailing boat on a body of water surrounded by stylised trees and grasses and sun or moon in the sky, the rim of the plate features a repeating pattern of undulating curved lines .The Travel service is in late Art Deco, "magic realism" style and was originally designed by the artist in 1937. Due to WWII, the pieces did not go into production until 1953.Eric William Ravilious (1903 – 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland .