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==Design== [[File:Eric Ravilious - Wedgwood alphabet cup CROP.jpg|thumb|upright|''Alphabet'' mug by Eric Ravilious, [[transfer printing]] on [[Wedgwood]] [[creamware]], 1937]] In February 1936, Ravilious held his second exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery and again it was a success, with 28 out of the 36 paintings shown being sold.<ref name="CLife"/> This exhibition also led to a commission from [[Wedgwood]] for ceramic designs.<ref name="Grdn"/> His work for them included a commemorative mug to mark the [[planned coronation of Edward VIII]]; the design was revised for the [[Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth]].<ref name="CLife">{{cite book|author=James Russell|publisher=The Mainstone Press (Norwich)|year=2011|title=Ravilious in Pictures: A Country Life|isbn=978-0955277764}}</ref> Other popular Ravilious designs included the ''Alphabet'' mug of 1937,<ref name="Bedell">{{cite web |author=Geraldine Bedell |author-link=Geraldine Bedell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/dec/07/features.review87|title=Bring me the admiral's bicycle |date= 7 December 2003|access-date=1 January 2014|work=Observer}}</ref> and the china sets, ''Afternoon Tea'' (1938), ''Travel'' (1938), and ''Garden Implements'' (1939), plus the ''Boat Race Day'' cup in 1938.<ref name="ertate">{{cite web|author=Freda Constable|title=Artist biography Eric Ravilious|publisher=Tate|access-date=1 January 2014|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eric-ravilious-1817}}</ref> Production of Ravilious' designs continued into the 1950s, with the coronation mug design being posthumously reworked for the coronation of [[Elizabeth II]] in 1953.<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=Jenkins|title=Ceramics of the '50s and '60s|pages=8β9|publisher=Miller's|location=London|year=2001}}</ref> He also undertook glass designs for Stuart Crystal in 1934, graphic advertisements for [[London Passenger Transport Board|London Transport]] and furniture work for Dunbar Hay in 1936.<ref name="ertate"/> Ravilious and Bawden were both active in the campaign by the [[Artists' International Association]] to support the Republican cause in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Throughout 1938 and 1939, Ravilious spent time working in Wales, the south of France and at [[Aldeburgh]] to prepare works for his third one-man show, which was held at the Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery in 1939.<ref name="CLife"/>
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