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

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  • Provenance

    Gwen Mullins collection, UK
    Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 'Contemporary Ceramics', 15 June 1989, lot 9
    Bonhams, New Bond Street, 'International Contemporary Ceramics', 23 May 2006, lot 56

  • 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

    Oliver Watson, British Studio Pottery: The Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London, 1990, p. 229, no. 486 for a comparable dish in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection
    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 p. 267 with accompanying essay

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Large dish

circa 1958
Stoneware, brown ash glazes with cream trailed slip and incised spiralling designs, the underside unglazed with combed design.
33.8 cm (13 1/4 in.) diameter
Impressed with artist's seal, incised and painted body and glaze codes.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 ‡♠

Sold for £2,772

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

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