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Hans Coper Important tall bottle vase with disc, circa 1968 image 1
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Lot 41AR

Hans Coper
Important tall bottle vase with disc, circa 1968

4 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £655,500 inc. premium

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Hans Coper

Important tall bottle vase with disc, circa 1968
Stoneware, layered white porcelain slips and engobes over a body with textured and incised linear designs, the neck, disk, and base with manganese glaze.
50.5 cm high, 20.5 cm diameter
Impressed with artist's seal.

Footnotes

Provenance
Galerie Besson, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005

Exhibited
'Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and their pupils: a selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence', Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2 October–16 December 1990; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Adeane Gallery, Cambridge, 22 January–1 April 1991
'Lucie Rie & Hans Coper-Potters in Parallel', Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20 February-26 May 1997

Literature
Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and their pupils: A selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p. 16
Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper-Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated p. 105
Tony Birks, Hans Coper, Catrine, 2013, illustrated p. 169, p. 4
Mienke Simon Thomas, ed., The Essential Potness: Lucie Rie and Hans Coper in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, exh. cat., Rotterdam, 2014, fig. 43 for a comparable example

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