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

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  • Provenance

    Berkeley Galleries, London
    Michael Cardew's brother and sister-in-law, 1962
    Christopher Wood Gallery, London, autumn 1980
    Private collection, UK
    Phillips, London, 'Contemporary Ceramics', 26 October 2000, lot 57

  • Exhibited

    Berkeley Galleries, London, 1962
    Galerie La Borne, Paris, 1962
    'British 20th Century Studio Ceramics', Christopher Wood Gallery, London, Autumn 1980
    '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 p. 353

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'Aeroplane Water Pot'

1962
Stoneware, mottled iron glazes over incised zoomorphic and aeroplane designs within impressed textured bands inlaid with white slip.
31.6 cm (12 1/2 in.) high

Estimate
£6,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £132,300

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
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Ben Williams
Ceramics Consultant
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Marijke Varrall-Jones
Director, Maak
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The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection

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