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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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Len Castle, rectangular stoneware dish, with tenmoku glaze and copper red overglaze to the well. Circa 1980, impressed initials, made and fired at South Titirangi Road. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Width 25 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, ovoid earthenware form, with textured surface. Circa 2004, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 17 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, compressed oval earthenware form with textured surface. Circa 2004, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 16 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, starfish form in earthenware. Circa 2004, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 14 cm
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Len Castle, volcanic ejecta, earthenware with red lava glaze to the interior. Circa 2007, illustrated: Len Castle Making the molecules dance, p.12. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 16 cm
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Len Castle, volcanic ejecta, earthenware with red lava glaze to the interior. Circa 2007, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 15 cm
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Len Castle, volcanic bomb, earthenware. Circa 2007, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 19 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware pouring dish, with rutile glaze over iron. Made and fired at Paturoa Road, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 20 cm
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Len Castle, sea secret, large oval from with alkaline blue glazed interior. 2000, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 28 cm
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Len Castle, blue Night Sky 2007, earthenware bowl of tapering conical shape with alkaline copper cobalt glaze. fired at Warkworth in an electric kiln, illustrated, Len Castle Making the molecules dance. p.226. This bowl was one of Len's favourite pieces from his personal collection and was kept in his bedroom. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 42 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware cylindrical vase, decorated with incised concentric bands and mottled blue and green glaze, unique ridge to the interior, impressed initials., this vase was kept in Len's Bedroom along with above noted bowl. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 23 cm
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Len Castle, crater Lake bowl, matt grey stained earthenware with turquoise alkaline glazed well, this bowl was kept in Len's study. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 45 cm
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Len Castle, branch vase, press moulded stoneware with tenmoku glaze. Made and fired at South Titirangi Road circa early 1980's. (Glaze imperfection evident to the underside of the top rim), unusual script signature to the lower side wall and repeated on the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 37 cm
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Len Castle, slab vase, press moulded stoneware with potash and soda crackled feldspathic glaze. Made and fired at South Titirangi Road, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 36 cm
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Len Castle, fossilised Bird, earthenware. Circa 1998, impressed initials and date, illustrated: Len Castle Potter, p.108. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 24 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware bowl, with shino-type glaze, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 25 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, earthenware. Circa 2006, impressed initials to the base, an almost identical example illustrated in Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance. Ceramics 1948-2008, Lopdell House Gallery 2008. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 23 cm
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Len Castle, small stoneware form, with twin apertures and blue glazed interior, impressed initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 10 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, earthenware with textured unglazed surface and umber pigment. Circa 2004, incised initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 14 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, earthenware with unglazed textured surface. Circa 2004, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 12 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, bowl shaped form with pierced unglazed surface. Circa 2004, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 13 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, ovoid shape with pierced and textured surface with blue alkaline glazed well. Circa 2004, incised initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 7 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, elliptical shape with unglazed textured surface and blue alkaline glazed well. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 12 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, hanging form with small aperture, ribbed surface and pierced lug to allow suspension to the rear. Circa 2004, incised initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 13 cm
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Len Castle, hanging form, bottle shaped, unglazed with umber pigmented surface. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 23 cm
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Len Castle, fossil form, with deeply grooved and textured surface, incised initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection, 160 x 11 cm
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Len Castle, small stoneware bowl, tenmoku underglaze with calcite overglaze and wax resist quince decoration, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 17 cm
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Len Castle, two fossils, unglazed and textured earthenware with blue glazed interior. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Length 10 cm and 11 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware trinket box, sea shell fumed exterior. Blue glazed interior. Fired in Kelvin Bradford's kiln, impressed initials, illustrated Len Castle Potter, p.212, and p.167. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Len Castle, stoneware tankard with ash glaze. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Len Castle, stoneware bowl with shino-type glaze. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 23 cm
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Len Castle, volcanic lava red glazed bowl, earthenware with cadmium-selenium lava glaze, impressed initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 39 cm
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Len Castle, large stoneware bowl, mirror black underglaze, black and bluish Chun type overglaze. Made and fired at South Titirangi road, impressed initials to the base, a similar bowl illustrated in Making the Molecules Dance: Len Castle Ceramics a Retrospective Exhibition 1947-1994 -catalogue number 105. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 37 cm
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Len Castle, two Stoneware bowls, matching the above lot but of smaller size, one with impressed initials, the other unmarked but with affixed sticker. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 210 and 20 cm
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Len Castle, small stoneware blue glazed bowl with textured surface, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 20 cm
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Len Castle, earthenware spherical bowl, the well with stippled detailing and glazed in deep blue, impressed initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 31 cm
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Len Castle, earthenware spherical bowl, with deep blue glaze, impressed initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 30 cm
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Len Castle, large earthenware Night Sky series bowl, with textured interior rim and glazed in deep blue. Circa 1990, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 53 cm
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Len Castle, large Crater Lake bowl, earthenware with matt grey stained exterior, the interior with textured rim and graduating blue glaze pooling to deep blue, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 50 cm
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Len Castle, spherical bowl, earthenware with deep blue glaze, incised initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 43 cm
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Len Castle, large spherical bowl, earthenware with textured surface and deep blue glaze, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 50 cm
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Len Castle, unique Rock Pool bowl, textured unglazed exterior with sculptured rim and deep blue alkaline glaze to the interior. Circa 2004, impressed initials, illustrated Len Castle Making the Molecules Dance, p. 84 (detail of the well) and p. 85. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 40 cm
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Len Castle, large and unusual stoneware bowl, with sculptural cavetto, unglazed exterior and deep mauve glaze to the interior. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 47 cm
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Len Castle, small stoneware bottle vase, with colonial shino glaze. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 12 cm
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Len Castle, celadon glazed bowl, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Len Castle, earthenware bowl, hand modelled with matt grey stained exterior and unglazed interior rim with blue glaze to the well. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 31 cm
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Collection of stones and pebbles, found by Len Castle, and kept in his personal collection as reference pieces. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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River polished pounamu stone, together with another piece of pounamu and other fossils and objects found and kept by Len Castle as reference pieces. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Geoff Fairburn, a decorative Gourd, the surface incised and decorated with geometric motifs, a similar example illustrated in Craft New Zealand: the art of the craftsman by Doreen Blumhardt and Brian brake, p.199. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 47 cm
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Ian Smaill, lidded stoneware crock, with handles to the shoulder, salt glazed. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 29 cm
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Ross Mitchell-Anyon, stoneware casserole dish, salt glazed. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 31 cm
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Michael O’Donnell, stoneware salt glazed bowl, with combed surface decoration. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Jim Greig, stoneware dish, glazed in orange blue and green, incised initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 28 cm
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Matt Mclean, four stoneware salt glazed mugs, together with two shino glazed vases probably by Peter Oxborough. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Chester Nealie, small green glazed vase, with shell inclusions together with a small bottle and a stoneware bottle with stopper. (3 items). Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Chester Nealie, two Anagama fired stoneware vases, one with attached label, purchased by Len Castle at Ron Sang's annual Arts & Crafts exhibition. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 190 and 12 cm
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Graham Ambrose, two earthenware bottle vases and a bowl, impressed initials to each. (3 items). Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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A Japanese Arita plate, together with another dish painted with a carp. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Korean Blanket chest with iron fittings. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection, 1000 x 48 cm
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Len Castle, blossom vase, a large and impressive example of this iconic form. The press moulded vase with jun glaze over tenmoku. Circa 1980. (A small hairline crack at the base has been professionally restored), impressed initials to the base, a similar vase illustrated on the cover of Len Castle Potter by Ron Sang and Len Castle, 2002. note: offered with a signed copy of Len Castle Potter. Height 56 cm
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Len Castle, sulphurous bowl, earthenware. Circa 2010, impressed initials to the foot. Diameter 47 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware hanging form, of circular flattened shape with pierced aperture, textured surface, iron oxide wash and ochre pigment, impressed initials, illustrated Len Castle Potter, p.219. Diameter 36 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware hanging form, with textured surface, iron oxide wash and ochre pigment. Diameter 28 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware oil bottle, shino-type glaze. A rare example complete with original stoneware stopper, impressed initials. Height 14 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware oil bottle, shino-type glaze. A rare example complete with original stoneware stopper, impressed initials. Height 14 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware flagon, made for the Deer Stalkers Inn, impressed initials. Height 26 cm
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Len Castle, large stoneware bowl, with shino and cracked feldspathic glaze, impressed initials. Diameter 35 cm
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Len Castle, large earthenware bowl, with green glaze. This bowl is one of only a small number of this size with green glaze, impressed initials to the foot. Diameter 42 cm
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Len Castle, large earthenware conical bowl, with blue glaze, impressed initials to the foot. Diameter 41 cm
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Len Castle, alkaline pool bowl, with silica rubbed oxide textured exterior. The well with deep blue/turquoise glaze, impressed initials to the foot. Diameter 34 cm
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Len Castle, large earthenware bowl, with rich red lava glaze, impressed initials to the foot. Diameter 40 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware pouring bowl, with white ash glaze, impressed initials. Width 27 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware bowl, with pitted blue alkaline glaze, impressed initials. Diameter 35.5 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware cylindrical vase, decorated with incised concentric bands and mottled blue and green glaze, impressed initials. Height 19.3 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware cylindrical vase, decorated with incised concentric bands with mottled blue and green glaze, impressed initials. Height 173m
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Len Castle, inverted Volcano, moulded earthenware vase with blue glazed interior. This form is a unique and early example of Len’s volcano forms, impressed initials. Length 91 cm
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Len Castle bowl, iron glaze over tenmoku. Diameter 27 cm
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Len Castle, large stoneware dish, with textured well and green/ grey ash glaze decorated with an impressed stamp design, impressed initials to the base. Length 45 cm
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Len Castle, large stoneware dish, with jun glaze over tenmoku, wax resist decoration to the well, impressed initials to the base. Length 43 cm
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Len Castle, hanging form, with umber pigmented surface. Length 25 cm
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Len Castle, stoneware tenmoku mug, together with a Peter Stichbury mug
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Len Castle, stoneware jug, ash glaze over tenmoku, impressed initials. Height 17 cm
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Theo Schoon, colour transparencies from the Len Caste collection, an important archival collection of 20 medium format (54 x 5.4 cm) Kodak Ekatchrome colour transparencies which date from the mid-1950s to 1960s depicting thermal activity and scenes in the Rotorua, Waiotapu and Wairakei region. Provenance: Gifted to Len Castle by Theo Schoon in 1983. Given as part gift and part exchange for works between the artists at this time. The gift reflects the close friendship and working relationship Schoon and…
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Theo Schoon, a group of three medium format Kodak Ekatchrome colour transparencies, depicting Kowhaiwhai designs in red, black and white. Provenance: from the Len Castle Collection
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Roy Andrew Miller, Japanese Ceramics, Japan: Toto Shuppan Co Ltd 1961. Signed by Len Castle; Susan Peterson Shoji Hamada. A Potter’s Way and Work. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd 1974, 1st edition, signed by Len Castle. Provenance: from the Len Castle Collection
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Kawai Kanjiro’s House, text in Japanese, signed Kyoto, Len Castle.
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Lucie Rie, Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, japan: Miyake Design Studio 1989. Signed by Len Castle; Tony Birks The Complete Potters Companion. London: Conran Octopus 1997 new edition, signed by Len Castle.
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Donna O’Meara, Volcano, London: Cassell Illustrated 2007. Signed and dated by Len Castle 2009; Karen Wind Volcanoes of the South Wind. Tongariro Natural History Society. Signed by Len Castle; E.F. Lloyd Geology of Whakarewarewa Hot Springs. NZ Geological Survey 1975. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1991. Plus two other items on volcanoes, unsigned. (5 items)
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Marion Whybrow, The Leach Legacy, Bristol: Sansom & Co. 1996. Signed by Len Castle; Bernard Leach A Potter’s Book. London: Faber and Faber 1945, reprint; Bernard Leach A Potter in Japan 1952 – 1954. Londonn: Faber and Faber 1967; Bernard Leach The Potter’s Challenge. London: Souvenir Press 1976.
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Hugo Munsterberg, The Fold Arts Of Japan, US: Charles E. Tuttle & Co. 1961 reprint. Inscribed by Len Castle; Col Minogue and Robert Sanderson Wood-fired Ceramics. Contemporary Practices. London: Craftsman House 2000. Signed by Len Castle; Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet Japanesse Wood-Fired Ceramics. KP Books 2005, trujimura ceramics. Frankfurt: Japan Art 1993.
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Peter Lane, Studio Porcelain, Contemporary Design And Technique. London: Pitman House 1980. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1981; Peter Lane Ceramic Form. London: Collins 1988. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1988; Alison Littlemore and Kraig Carlstrom Nine Artist Potters. Sydney: Jack Pollard.
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Tim Andrews, Raku, London: A & C Black 2005, 2nd edition. Signed and dated by Len Castle 2005; Robert Piepenburg Raku Pottery. Macmillan 1972. Signed by Len Castle; Christopher Tyler and Richard Hirsch Raku. Techniques for Contemporary Potters. London: Pitman and Sons 1975. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1978.
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Kenneth Clark, The Potter’s Manual, london: Macdonald & Co. 1983. Signed by Len Castle; Greg Daly Glazes and Glazing Techniques. Aust: Kangaroo Press 1995.
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Emmanuel Cooper, Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery, British Museum Press 2000. Signed by Len Castle; John Gibson Pottery Decoration. Contemporary Approaches. London: A and C Black 1987. Signed by Len Castle.
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Jim and Mary Barr, Contemporary New Zealand Painters, photographs by Marti Friedlander. Martinborough: Alister Taylor 1980. Volume.1. [only one volume published.] Signed by Len Castle; Ascent – A Journal of the Arts in New Zealand. Caxton Press, Vol. 1 No. 4. Signed by Len Castle; Eric Lee Johnson [editor] Art Year Book No. 7. Well: Wingfield Press 1951. Signed by Len Castle.
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Japanese Pottery Book, Japan: Gakken 1978 – text in Japanese, illustrated, folio, No 20 on spine, in slipcase. Signed and dated by Len castle 1978; Japanese Art Book. Japan: Shueisha 1976 – text in Japanese, illustrated, folio, No.12 on spine, in slipcase.
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Group of 14 Japanese books on ceramics, pottery and art, some signed and dated by Len Castle.
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Group of 18 books on Ancient art, travel etc, many signed by Len Castle.
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Suzanne Et Georges Ramie, Ceramiques de Picasso, geneva: Editions D’Art Albert Skira. Folio of plates. Signed by Len Castle; G.H.S. Bushnell Ancient American Pottery. London: Faber and Faber 1955. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1956; West Marshall Slab Building. London: A and C Black 1982; Herbert Read Art and Industry. London: Faber and Faber 1947 reprint. Signed and dated by Len Castle 1953; Ian Currie Stoneware Glazes. Aust: Bootstrap Press 1985. Signed by Len Castle; Arthur Lane Early Islamic Pottery.…
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Doreen Blumhardt and Brian Brake, Craft New Zealand, reed 1981. Signed by Brian brake, and various New Zealand potters including Len Castle, Peter and Catherine Stichbury and Ted Dutch.
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