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Richard Slee
'Lidded Jar'
- Estimate
- £2,000 - 3,000‡♠
£21,420
Lot Details
Earthenware, glazes over a crumpled and incised surface.
circa 1984
52.4 cm (20 5/8 in.) high
Incised RICHARD SLEE.
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Catalogue Essay
Phillips wishes to thank Richard Slee for his assistance cataloguing the present lot.
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Richard Slee
British | 1946British ceramist Richard Slee’s influences derive from the eighteenth-century pottery manufactories around Stoke-on-Trent in England known for mass-produced wares in the style of German, Dutch and Chinese porcelain. Decidedly non-functional, Slee’s work slyly references these styles and their decorative lack of purpose, but infuses contemporary imagery, conversing between the familiar and the ornate, to often humorous result. Slee’s work is in the permanent collections of multiple institutions, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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