Avery Alison Kelly, FSA, (17 October 1913 – 15 August 2016) was an English art historian who was an authority on Coade stone and Wedgwood pottery.
During the Second World War she designed camouflage for the home front and later she lectured in London on the fine arts and wrote several books on Wedgwood.
[2] She was educated at Manor House School, Surrey, and then at crammers before entering Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in 1933 where she read English.
She then spent a year at the Liverpool City School of Art after which she worked in stage design at the Westminster Theatre.
[1][3] In 1956,[3] Kelly moved to Holland Park in London where she cared for her widowed mother and lectured at the City Literary Institute, Workers' Educational Association, the Design Centre, the London University Extramural Department and elsewhere on topics such as the architecture of Christopher Wren and the history of English furniture.