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The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate Collection — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:413
Sale Title:The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate CollectionLots with images:296
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:320
Date:25-Oct-2012
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware wall bottle, semi matt grey barium glaze with pierced lug supports and original cord for suspension, impressed mark. Diameter 34 cm
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware casserole dish, together with a small vase with tenmoku glaze and a conical stoneware bowl, impressed marks to each.
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Peter Stichbury, large stoneware casserole dish, with green papa over tenmoku glaze, impressed mark.
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware plate, a jug and two oil bottles, together with a St. Ives stoneware dish.
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Peter Stichbury, large stoneware casserole dish, with tenmoku and ash glaze. Width 34 cm
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Peter Stichbury, circular dish, with iron sand decoration to the well, the exterior unglazed.
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Leo King, porcelain bowl, with narrow aperture with finely painted black line decoration to the surface on a white glaze. Diameter 26 cm
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Patricia Perrin, stoneware salt jar, with cork lid, pierced lug to the shoulder and original wooden spoon.
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Jack Laird, waimea pottery stoneware jug, together with another stoneware jug.
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Estelle Martin, two tenmoku glazed stoneware flagons, each with original stopper, made for the Napier Centennial Exhibition. Height 28 cm
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John Leach, muchelney pottery stoneware jug, together with a seven branch stoneware pot., made to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee, 2002
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Three New Zealand Delware enamel dishes, with Maori rock art decoration.
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Estelle Martin, two anagama fired vases
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Estelle Martin, three anagama stoneware vases, each of square slab form (one repaired).
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Simon Engelhard, stoneware pedestal bowl, with daubed green glaze [chip to rim]. Diameter 20 cm
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Charles Holmes, stoneware slab sided vase, with textured surface. The front inset with a circular red glazed disc. Height 31 cm
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Keith Blight, four stoneware vases
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Robyn Stewart, dung fired and burnished pod vase, with pierced koru design. Diameter 13 cm
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Steve Fulmer and Paul Meltzer, stoneware flagon and coffee pot, with salt glaze
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John Parry, two stoneware flagons, together with a Waimea pottery jug.
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Keith Blight, pair of stoneware vases, each of triangulated form, glazed to the upper section and unglazed to the base. Height 34 cm
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Anneke Borren, stoneware vase, in ovoid tapering form. Height 22 cm
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Paula King, stoneware jug and eight matching cups, together with a Don Thornley oil bottle.
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Steve Fulmer, ovoid vase, with a Patti Meads bottle vase and a Doris Dutch bottle vase
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Graeme Storm, stoneware dish and vase, with tenmoku wax resist decoration, together with another vase
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Barry and Barbara Hockenhull, stoneware mug and candlestick, with a Jeff Scholes stoneware jug and a stoneware pot with tenmoku glaze
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Peter Collis, stoneware vase, with gilt decoration to the shoulder. Height 23 cm
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware dish with iron sand decoration, with a stoneware vase and flagon with wax resist decoration, impressed mark to each
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Warren Tippet, stoneware dish, with gestural painted blue decoration on a tenmoku ground. Diameter 20 cm
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Brian Gartside, stoneware bowl, together with a Jackie Cuspin stoneware dish
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Olive Jones, blue glazed vase, a blue glazed jug and a dish together with a green glazed vase
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Merilyn Wiseman, stoneware dish, two Celia Parkinson vases, and a lidded pot and a bottle vase by Roger Paul
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John Parker, copper lustre teapot, together with a copper lustre bowl
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John Parker, two agateware vases, together with a porcelain conical bowl
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Neil Grant, coffee set, coffee pot and tenmoku glazed flagon
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Peter Knuckey, stoneware Corbans wine bottle, and two June Handley oil bottles with original stoppers
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Julia Colman, three stoneware vases, of graduating cylindrical size
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Peter Stichbury, collection of stoneware oil bottles, wine goblets and coffee mugs
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Ian Firth, bowl with shino glaze, and a stoneware vase with wax resist decoration, impressed mark to each.
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Ian Firth, two Stoneware vases, together with a small Jeff Scholes vase.
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Ian Firth, stoneware bowl, with pinched rim and jun glazed interior. Diameter 22 cm
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Roger Brittain (attributed), a large ovoid stoneware vase, with red and grey glaze. Height 35 cm
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Peter Lange, year of the Rat red glazed sculptural teapot. Length 23 cm
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Stan Jenkins (attributed), large stoneware discoid vase. Height 47 cm
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware oil bottle, with tenmoku glaze together with a Don Thornley stoneware oil bottle and a Jack Laird Waimea Pottery wine bottle with original cork stopper
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Richard Cadness, stoneware jug with tenmoku glaze, together with a Waimea pottery jug, another tenmoku glazed jug and four wine cups.
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Don Thornley [attributed], stoneware dish, with iron sand decoration. Width 34 cm
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Elizabeth Lissaman, small stoneware jug, together with five small assorted pieces of pottery.
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Peter Stichbury, stoneware coffee pot, together with a stoneware teapot and lidded water jug.
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Yvonne Rush, circular stoneware dish, with ash glaze together with eight other assorted pieces.
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Scott Hockenhull, two cube form vases, with black glaze and circular apertures
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Ian Smaill, large stoneware dish, with olive ash glaze. Diameter 43 cm
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Peter Collis, porcelain vase, together with two vases and a circular dish
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Jeff Oestreich, jug and tea bowl, each with impressed marks together with a lidded pot by Rand Heazlett
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Peter Lange, stoneware teapot, together with a salt glazed teapot and two other teapots
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Rosemary Brittain, stoneware bird figure
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Robyn Stewart, dung fired burnished paperweight, with Maori rock art design. Diameter 8 cm
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Keith Blight, stoneware slab vase, with fossil impressed design together with another Keith Blight vase
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Peter Stichbury, conical shaped stoneware bowl, together with three oil bottles
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Asako Sakurai, pair of stoneware bowls, with white glaze. Diameter 11 cm
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Anita Thompson, a stoneware vase, with lustre decoration together with five other assorted pieces
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Warren Tippett (attributed), ovoid stoneware vase, with slender neck, salt glazed with tenmoku interior, unmarked, purchased from New Vision Gallery circa 1968-1970. Height 28 cm
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Barry Brickell (attributed), stoneware dish, with tenmoku glaze together with another stoneware dish, purchased from New Vision Gallery circa 1968-1970
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Charles Holmes, stoneware with textured surface, circa 1970s, illustrated: Conetendown, Studio Pottery in New Zealand 1945-1980 Moyra Elliot and Damian Skinner, David Bateman 2009, P.131. Height 31.5 cm.
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John Ecuyer, Oceanic Vessel, wood turned black maire with applied patinated copper. Height 53 cm. Diameter 460
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Ernest Shufflebotham, white spherical hand potted and lathe turned vase, shape 14. Height 14 cm
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Ernest Shufflebotham for Crown Lynn, unique prototype glazed planter, in matt white. Diameter 25 cm
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Briar Gardiner, trough vase, with aubergine and pale green glaze. Width 22 cm
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Stoneware salt pig, together with two stoneware coasters
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Barry Ball, large stoneware orb form. Diameter 30 cm
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Robyn Stewart, three Totem forms, of graduated size with textured exterior surface and burnished glaze incised with koru motifs, impressed marks.
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Doreen Blumhardt, stoneware standard lamp, made in the manner of Korean Shila pottery, the pierced baluster stem raised on a spreading foot. Provenance: From the Doreen Blumhardt Collection. Height 126 cm
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Paul Maseyk, bottle form, decorated in black and white slip, inscribed on the white slip panels ‘Good, Bad, Crap, Ugly’. Height 41 cm
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John Parker, large copper lustre glazed vase, with a conical base issuing to an ovoid central section with grooved cylindrical upper section. Height 46 cm
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Graham Ambrose, a pair of orb shaped vases, each with turquoise glaze. Diameter 22 cm
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Graham Ambrose, an orb shaped vase, with turquoise glaze. Diameter 16 cm
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Moyra Elliott, japanese temple bell form, earthenware with variegated green surface decoration. Height 43 cm
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Steven Scholefield (Rocket Pottery), lidded stoneware jar, slip trailed decoration in the manner of Winchcombe pottery, impressed mark to the base. Height 17 cm
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Elizabeth Lissaman, wall plaque, hand painted with dancing peacocks, signed and dated to the reverse. Diameter 37 cm
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Adrian Cotter, stoneware lamp base, together with a June Black stoneware bowl and a St. Ives stoneware pouring jug.
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Briar Gardiner, trough vase, with blue and cream glaze together with another trough vase.
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Briar Gardiner, trough vase, with green trickle glaze. Length 18 cm
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Estelle Martin, ovoid stoneware vase, anagama fired, together with another anagama fired stoneware vase, each with incised marks to the base. Height 25 cm
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Peter Collis, large stoneware vase, painted with floral decoration, signed and dated 3/84 to the base. Height 54 cm
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Graham Ambrose, large porcelain bowl, conical shaped with turquoise glaze. Diameter 38 cm
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Graham Ambrose, a large and impressive vase, of orb shape with rich red glaze, impressed initials to the base. Diameter 45 cm
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Barry Brickell, a large and impressive hand built terracotta spiromorph sculpture, the large orbicular body issuing from an elliptical base and supporting a stylised bulbous bust. Height 91 cm
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Barry Brickell, stoneware salt glazed bellarmine, with mask to the neck section. Height 30 cm
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Richard Parker, large terracotta vase, with yellow and green splatter glaze on a cream ground.
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Rick Rudd, bottle, 1989, pinched and coiled, raku fired with white crackle glaze to the interior., exhibited: Rick Rudd True to Form, Sarjeant Gallery, 1996. Illustrated on page 16 of the catalogue. This important bottle was one of very few made by Rick Rudd. A copy of the catalogue True to Form will be offered with this lot. Height 357 x 250 x 23.5 cm
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Juliet Peter and Roy Cowan, an important collaborative wall mural, the white ceramic tiles painted with an abstract modernist design. Provenance: This mural was historically part of the bathroom in Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter’s home at 8 Heke Street, Ngaio Wellington
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Large collection of New Zealand Potter magazines
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Aquila hand-painted unique prototype wall plaque, decorated with a galleon by Cam Brown. Provenance: From the Dorothy and Cam Brown family collection. Diameter 36 cm
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Aquila hand-painted unique prototype wall plaque, decorated with a goddess figure on a cobalt blue ground by Cam Brown, [small chip to foot rim]. Provenance: From the Dorothy and Cam Brown family collection. Diameter 36 cm
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Aquila hand painted unique prototype wall plaque, with a bird flying over a landscape, green glazed by Cam Brown. Provenance: From the Dorothy and Cam Brown family collection. Diameter 36 cm
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Aquila hand painted unique prototype wall plaque, with a bird flying over a landscape, brown glazed by Cam brown. Provenance: From the Dorothy and Cam Brown family collection. Diameter 36 cm
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Collection of five Titian ware, and Aquila hand painted character jugs of Friar Tuck, Maid Marion, Robin Hood, Alan A Dale and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Provenance: From the Dorothy and Cam Brown family collection
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Kari Christensen for Royal Copenhagen, fajance bottle vase, painted with an abstract figure in a field of stylised flowers. Height 29 cm
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Royal Copenhagen Fajance vase or flask form, painted with abstract floral decoration in blue and brown. Height 23 cm
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Hans Linden, industrial design bottle vase, with vertical fins protruding from the body, signed and dated 1971 to the base. Height 30 cm
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