Akiko Hirai - The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection London Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist following 'Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery' exhibition

  • Exhibited

    'Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, 14 September-3 December 2017 and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 20 March-18 June 2018

  • Literature

    Glenn Adamson, Martina Droth and Simon Olding, eds., Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, exh. cat., Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017, illustrated pp. 168, 180-81

163

Moon Jar

circa 2016
Grogged stoneware, rugged and cracked porcelain deposits over layered slips beneath running ash glazes.
52 cm (20 1/2 in.) high, 51 cm (20 1/8 in.) diameter
Painted artist's signature.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠

Sold for £27,720

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The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection

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