Studio Pottery Vase with flambé glaze, C20th
Current Bid: | £20.00 |
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Total Amount: | £24.80 |
Number of Bids: | 4 |
Location: | United Kingdom |
Highest Bidder: | User 1410 |
Auction Start: | 24/04/24 10:03:00 UTC |
Auction Ending: | 08/05/24 19:10:00 UTC |
Auction Finished : | 08/05/24 19:10:00 UTC |
LOT NUMBER 6
Studio Pottery Vase with flambé glaze, C20th
A studio pottery vase, the body of broad ovoid form, ribbed and rising to a wide neck, covered in a multicoloured purple flambé gaze with splash glaze effects, the flat base unglazed and with a handwritten script mark. The look of this piece is Oriental with borrowings from both China and Japan but the shape does not resemble pieces from either and the paste suggests European and almost certainly English manufacture. Potters from the early twentieth century onwards studied the work of their Oriental counterparts intently, producing pieces ‘in the style of’ rather than direct copies. Bernard Leach (1887 to 1979) was the trailblazer here and had many successors at the Leach pottery which still produces pieces today. Bernard’s son, David (1911 to 2005), created many pieces similar to this vase but the foot is different and they are always signed. The maker of this piece must be anonymous, at least for now, but displays great skill in the potting and the handling of the complex glaze effects which look towards Chinese Jun ware and Japanese tenmoku glazes. The script signature, which is hard to decipher, seems to be contemporary to the manufacture and the handwriting style looks towards the early twentieth century, so possibly a dating here to the 1920s or 1930s, but this is very speculative. But the quality of workmanship is not in doubt and presents an interesting addition for the collector of studio pottery wares.Size: | Ht 16cm Width (max) 13cm Base 8.5cm |
Weight: | 990gm |
Date: | Early C20th |
Condition: | Very good condition |
Estimate: | £30 – 40 |