Lot 344
Small bottle with disc top
Sold
£38,100
Est £15,000 - £20,000
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LUCIE RIE AND HANS COPER, EXCEPTIONAL CERAMICS: SELECTIONS FROM THE ESTATE OF JANE COPER AND THE FORMER COLLECTION OF CYRIL FRANKEL
ARTIST
Hans Coper
Size
12 x 9 x 9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Description
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JANE COPER

Medium
Stoneware, black glaze over a textured and incised body.
Signature
Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance
Lucie Rie Jane Coper, circa 1995
Literature
Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated p. 107 Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter, New Haven and London, 2012, illustrated plate 108
Exhibited
‘Hans Coper, 1920-1981 - Memorial Collection’, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, January–19 September 1983; Hetjens Museum (Deutsches Keramikmuseum), Düsseldorf, 15 January–18 March; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1 April–20 May; Serpentine Gallery, London, 7 June–15 July 1984 ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20 February–26 May 1997, item 14.3