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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