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The Martin Hill Collection of International and New Zealand Ceramics — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:206
Sale Title:The Martin Hill Collection of International and New Zealand CeramicsLots with images:202
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:196
Date:8-Jun-2011
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Winchcombe pottery, oval slipware dish with poured cream slip decoration on a brown ground beneath a rich galena glaze, unmarked. Length 28 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, lidded slipware jar, decorated with a trailing wavy line wiped though a layer of cream slip between concentric bands under a galena glaze, possibly by Michael Cardew. Impressed Winchcombe pottery seal. Height 12 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, slipware casserole dish and cover, the interior with a trailing wavy line wiped through a layer of cream slip under a galena glaze. Winchcombe pottery seal, the lid broken and repaired. Diameter 23 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, a large slipware casserole dish decorated with a trailing wavy line wiped through a layer of cream slip under a galena glaze, the decoration repeated to the interior, exterior and lid. Unmarked. Diameter 25 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, eight slipware dishes, each decorated with a trailing line design wiped through a layer of cream slip under a galena glaze
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Winchcombe pottery, large lidded slipware jar decorated with scrolling motifs in brown and white under a galena glaze, Winchcombe pottery seal mark. Height 24 cm
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Michael Cardew, Winchcombe Pottery slipware tyg with three looping handles, cream slip under a galena glaze. Impressed MC and Winchcombe pottery seals. Broken and repaired. Diameter 17 cm
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Michael Cardew, an early and rare St Ives slipware bowl, cream slip with an amber glaze, the well incised with floral forms under the glaze. Impressed Mc and St Ives pottery seals, circa 1920. Diameter 18 cm
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Michael Cardew, a Winchcombe pottery slipware water jar with brushed decoration in brown on a cream slip under a rich galena glaze, with single looping handle. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals. Height 29 cm
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Michael Cardew, an oval slipware platter with dot and line slip decoration on a brown glazed ground. Impressed Mc seal mark. Length 42 cm
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Michael Cardew, a Winchcombe pottery slipware plate, brown painted decoration with an incised cross hatched patterning on yellow ground. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals,. Diameter 19 cm
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Michael Cardew, a Winchcombe pottery slipware bowl with green glazed interior, on a raised circular foot, the exterior with a green slip trailing spiral design. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals. Diameter 19 cm
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Michael Cardew, winchcombe pottery slipware Raisin jar. Cream slip under a rich galena glaze, incised 'Raisins' to the jar and lid, the edge of the lid with chipping evident under the glaze. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals. Height 20 cm
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Michael Cardew, wentford bridge stoneware wall pocket painted with a flower stem motif on oatmeal coloured ground. Impressed Mc and Wenford bridge seals. Height 21 cm
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Michael Cardew (attributed), an early circular slipware dish with trailed cream yellow slip on a brown tenmoku ground. Unmarked. Diameter 27 cm
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Michael Cardew, wenford bridge stoneware teapot with painted decoration in iron on an unglazed surface, with two pierced lugs at the shoulder and attached cane handle. Impressed personal seal and Wenford bridge impressed seal. Small rim frits, W.30 cm
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Michael Cardew, two early St Ives egg cups and an early Winchcombe pottery egg cup together with two St Ives stoneware egg cups, the two early egg cups impressed with personal seal marks (5)
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Michael Cardew, slipware teapot with stylised floral design in brown on a cream slip with incised cross hatching, circa 1920. An almost identical example illustrated in British Studio Ceramics by Paul rice. P34. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals to the base and lid. Length 26 cm
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Michael Cardew, winchcombe pottery slipware coffee pot with strap handle and slip trailed decoration under a galena glaze. Impressed Mc and Winchcombe pottery seals. Height 20 cm
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Michael Cardew (attributed), slipware cheese dish and cover with a wavy line decoration wiped through cream slip under a galena glaze. Unmarked. Diameter 19 cm
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Michael Cardew, winchcombe pottery slipware dish decorated with a trailing line design wiped through cream slip under a galena glaze. Mc seal. Diameter 19 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, five slipware bowls decorated with a trailing line design under a galena glaze. Winchcombe pottery seal mark to each
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Winchcombe pottery, slipware dish with painted decoration, cream slip on brown ground. Winchcombe pottery seal mark. Length 17 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, four various slipware bowls, one damaged and repaired
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Winchcombe pottery (attributed), two lidded slipware casserole dishes, unmarked. Diameter 19 cm
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Winchcombe pottery, two slipware beakers with trailing line design in brown on white slip under a galena glaze.
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Potter Unknown, a small slipware ramekin and vase, unmarked
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Raymond Finch, a slipware mug decorated with swimming fish in brown on a white slip under a galena glaze. Winchcombe pottery seal mark and personal seal. Together with a Winchcombe pottery mug (2)
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Raymond Finch, Winchcombe Pottery slipware bowl with deep brown glaze, decorated with a pattern of intersecting lines. Impressed R.F seal and Winchcombe pottery mark. Diameter 21 cm
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Michael Cardew Abuja pottery, stoneware baluster shaped vase with three strap handles to the shoulder covered in a grass ash slate-grey glaze. Impressed Mc and Abuja pottery seals. Height 21 cm
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Ladi Kwali, abuja Pottery stoneware oil bottle with tenmoku glaze on a slate-blue ground. Impressed Lk and Abuja Pottery seals. Height 24 cm
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Abuja pottery, lidded cup with a slate-grey glaze (probably by Michael Cardew) and another Abuja pottery lidded cup with a tenmoku glaze, each with Abuja pottery seal marks
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Abuja Pottery, a large and impressive ovoid floor vase with incised bands at the neck above incised concentric bands across the body. The bands at the shoulder enclosing triangular geometric motifs with cross hatched detailing in a white slip. Covered in a grass ash slate grey glaze over tenmoku. Unmarked. Height 35 cm
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Alan Caiger-Smith, a small bowl with painted abstract design under a lustrous tin glaze. Painted monogram. Diameter 13 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie, stoneware pouring vessel with extruded side handle and matching bowl. Oyster white exterior with yellow glazed interior. Impressed Lr seal mark, circa 1957, bowl. Diameter 14 cm, jug. Height 8 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie, teapot with manganese glaze with vertical radiating sgraffito bands, the looping cane handle attached at the shoulder through pierced lugs. Impressed Lr seal mark, circa 1958.
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Dame Lucie Rie, stoneware bowl of conical shape, white tin glaze with manganese glazed rim. Impressed Lr seal mark, circa 197. Diameter 11 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie, stoneware bowl with yellow glaze to interior and exterior, manganese glazed rim. Impressed Lr seal mark, with repairs. Diameter 14 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, stoneware pouring vessel with side handle, black glaze. Impressed Lr and Hc seal marks, circa 1947-58
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Dame Lucie Rie, stoneware cream jug with manganese glaze, Lr seal mark, circa 1958. Height 11 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, stoneware bowl with white tin glaze flecked with iron, impressed Lr and Hc seal marks,. Diameter 13 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, six place coffee set, comprising a coffee pot and milk jug each with side handles, sugar basin and six cups and saucers. Stoneware with manganese glaze with sgraffito banding to the exterior and white tin glazed interior, the coffee pot with a small chip to the rim of the spout. Impressed Lr and Hc seal marks to the base of the cups, the coffee pot, milk jug and sugar basin with Lr seal marks, circa 1960.
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Dame Lucie Rie, stoneware oil bottle and vinegar bottle each complete with original stopper, white tin glaze with manganese glaze to the rim, Lr seal mark, circa 1958. Height 16 cm and. Height 15 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie (attributed), porcelain bowl of conical shape with a metallic bronze glaze, the interior incised with concentric bands, the exterior with a broad incised band to the rim and vertical radiating sgraffito bands with a further incised inky blue band to the lower section of the bowl and two further bands highlighted in copper. Unmarked. For a similar bowl see Sothebys Art and design from 1870 auction 16th November 2006, Lot 529. Diameter 29 cm
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Dame Lucie Rie, a pair of stoneware white tin glazed beakers, one with pale green glazed interior, the other with blue interior. Impressed seal mark. Height 11 cm
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Hans Coper, an early angular stoneware vase, the interior in mat manganese, the exterior textured with a buff white slip, raised on a cylindrical foot, circa 1958. Impressed Hc seal mark to the base. Height 15 cm
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Bryan Newman, rare composite sculpture, constructed from numerous thrown shapes. Earthenware with tin, iron and yellow glazing. Some minor damage, 300 x 18 cm. a similar example illustrated in Art of the modern Potter by Tony Birks p.66-67.
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Kenneth Clark, four tin glazed plates painted with abstract designs
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Kenneth Clark, Ann Wynn Reeves, a tin glazed dish painted with floral and geometric designs, together with a rectangular tin glazed dish with abstract lozenge design, a floral design tile by Ann Wynn Reeves and two other tiles (5)
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John Chappell, stoneware dish and lidded butter dish, impressed initials to the base of each
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John Chappell, stoneware dish in the Mashiko style with a speckled iron glaze and repeating wave design, impressed mark,. Diameter 24 cm
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Marianne de Trey, stoneware platter painted with a fish design together with a cup and saucer and coffee cup. Impressed cipher mark (3)
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Philip Smeale Wadsworth, stoneware ovoid vase, incised initials to the base,. Height 17 cm
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Quentin Bell, earthenware jug painted with a floral design, together with stoneware mug (potter unknown) and an egg cup, H .9 cm (2)
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Charles Brannam, slip ware bowl together with an earthenware bowl by G Guilme. Diameter 12 cm and 13 cm (2)
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Braunton Pottery, peasant pottery jug with slip trailed decoration, together with a Paul Baron jug and one other jug (3)
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Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, small stoneware bowl with celadon glaze, together with a blue glazed bowl and a small bowl with vertical sgraffito cut bands, impressed mark to each (3)
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Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, six celadon glazed stoneware bowls, impressed seal mark to each. Diameter 19 cm
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Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, five earthenware planters and eight small dishes (13)
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Louis Hanssen (attributed), stoneware lidded bowl with ribbed decoration covered in a white slip (repair to lid) together with a small lidded stoneware octagonal box (2)
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Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, two stoneware cups and saucers, milk jug and three bowls. Tenmoku glazed, each with impressed marks
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Gwyn Hanssen Piggott, four stoneware cups and saucers, the cups with strap handles with bluish white glaze, impressed marks
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Colin Pearson, two stoneware pan shaped serving dishes together with a Brighton Pottery lidded stoneware casserole dish (3)
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St Ives, a small stoneware bowl together with a vase, mug, small dish and lidded sugar basin. Impressed marks to each (5)
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St Ives, stoneware Yunomi (tea cup) together with two beakers and a saucer, each with tenmoku glaze and impressed marks (4)
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St Ives, lidded casserole dish, small lidded dish, two lidded ramekins, lidded bowl and two small dishes, each with glazed interior and unglazed exterior, impressed mark to each (7)
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St Ives, four stoneware mugs with ash and feldspar glaze, impressed mark
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St Ives, nine stoneware plates with glazed interior and unglazed exterior together with a pouring vessel with celadon glaze (10)
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St Ives, lidded stoneware jar, three plates and two small beakers with tenmoku glaze, impressed mark to each
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St Ives, a stoneware waisted vase with tenmoku glaze, impressed mark. Height 15 cm
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St Ives, two small slipware bowls and a vase decorated with cream slip on a brown ground, impressed mark to each
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St Ives, two slipware vases decorated with a cream slip on a brown ground, impressed mark to each
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Bernard Leach, large and impressive stone ware tile decorated with a well head design on cream ground. Five impressed St Ives pottery marks to the back of the tile. Height 225 x W.22.5 cm
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Bernard Leach, stoneware tile decorated with a leaping deer on cream ground, unmarked. Height 100 x W. 10 cm
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Bernard Leach, stoneware rectangular pen tray. Pale celadon glaze over combed white slip to the interior, the exterior with tenmoku glaze, circa 1960. Impressed personal seal mark and St Ives pottery mark, W.21 cm. For a similar example see Bernard Leach: a potters work, plate 33
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Bernard Leach, stoneware ashtray with glazed celadon interior and unglazed exterior. Impressed personal seal mark and St Ives pottery mark, W. 14 cm, together with a small St Ives bowl (2)
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Bernard Leach, stoneware teapot with celadon glaze, small rim frits to the spout, impressed personal seal mark and St Ives pottery mark. Height 15 cm
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Bernard Leach, stoneware teapot with brown floral decoration on a grey ash glazed ground, chipped to the lid, impressed St Ives pottery seal mark and personal seal mark
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Bernard Leach (attributed), small ovoid stoneware vase with deep black glaze. Firing flaw to top rim. Impressed St Ives mark. Height 19 cm. Martin Hill showed Bernard Leach this small vase when he visited New Zealand in 1962. Leach informed Martin that this vase was his work but he had not marked it with a personal seal mark due to the flaw to the top rim.
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Bernard Leach (attributed), earthenware dish with moulded pie crust rim and feather pattern decoration on yellow ground. Impressed St Ives seal mark, circa 1930. Diameter 20 cm. Martin Hill's notes record that he showed this dish to Bernard Leach who confirmed that it was his work when he viewed the collection. Another identical example can be viewed in the Cbs gallery collection at www.cbs.Co.UK
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Bernard Leach, stoneware tile incised and painted with a swimming fish on a cream ground. Painted St Ives mark and painted Leach mark to the front of the tile, the reverse with four impressed St Ives seal marks, glaze damage to the upper section of the tile. Height 150 x W. 15 cm
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St Ives pottery, an earthenware dish, possibly by Bernard Leach with pie crust rim decorated with intersecting combed lines on a rich brown glazed ground. Unmarked. Diameter 32 cm. Martin Hill's notes record that Leach mentioned to him that the piecrust rim was a design characteristic of some of his work from the early 1930's.
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David Leach, stoneware vase of ovoid shape, tenmoku glaze decorated with a leaf pattern to the shoulder above two incised concentric bands. Impressed mark,. Height 18 cm
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David Leach, lowerdown Pottery stoneware tile, together with a milk jug and sugar basin painted with a leaf design. Impressed Lowerdown Pottery marks
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English potter unknown, stoneware vase of ovoid form covered in a deep brown glaze stopping short of the foot with iron brown brushed decoration, possibly by David Leach. Unmarked,. Height 26 cm
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St Ives, stoneware jug with painted motifs on a grey ash glazed ground, impressed St Ives seal mark, frits to the rim
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St Ives, two small stoneware tiles decorated with floral designs together with a large tile with ash glaze, the two small tiles with impressed marks. Height 50 x W.5 cm and. Height 120 x W. 13 cm
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St Ives, stoneware teapot similar to the above lot with floral decoration on a grey ash ground, unmarked
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St Ives, stoneware tile painted with a simple flower design on cream ground. Painted St Ives mark to the front of the tile, four impressed marks to the reverse. Height 150 x W. 15 cm; together with another stoneware tile painted with a swimming fish (cracked and repaired). Height 140 x W. 14 cm (2)
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Norah Braden, stoneware vase of ovoid shape with cream crackle glaze, painted mark. Height 21 cm
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Norah Braden, stoneware bowl with combed decoration beneath a white slip. Impressed mark and incised numerals to the foot ring probably referencing the glaze type. Diameter 17 cm
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John Shelly, a slipware dish decorated in brown and cream slip on a brown glazed ground. Impressed mark,. Length 20 cm
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Lewis Groves, stoneware mug with deep brown glaze together with another stoneware mug (2)
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Hamada Shoji, stoneware Yunomi (teacup), layered cream slip and grey crawling glaze with iron painted gestural design. Height 9 cm
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Hamada Shoji, square stoneware bottle vase, the body with dry iron glaze with poured loops of 'Nuka' and tenmoku to each face. Height 23 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo, stoneware dish decorated with stylized floral design in cream slip on a brown glaze, impressed potter’s seal to the base,. Diameter 27.4 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo, a large stoneware dish decorated with a central roundel with stylized fruit design in cream slip surrounded by impressed and inlaid herringbone pattern. Impressed seal to the base, with wood box bearing the signature and seal of Shimaoka Tatsuzo. Diameter 30.7 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo, sake set, comprising a bottle (tokkuri) and five cups (guinomi), all decorated with impressed and inlaid diagonal cord design beneath a cream glaze, the tokkuri with three iron-decorated roundels and impressed seal to footrim,. Height 14.5 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo, a pair of stoneware bottles decorated with impressed and inlaid diagonal cord design beneath a cream-coloured glaze,. Height 14 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo, a stoneware teabowl, the exterior decorated with a net design in cream slip on brown glaze, impressed potter’s seal to the base,. Diameter 12 cm
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