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Woodturned vase from Zander, “Lace Ruffles” showcases remarkable materiality through its thinly registered walls — the vessel’s exterior surface capturing the grain and hidden sculptural detail in full depth and breadth across its sloping facade. The impression of lace upon the rim seems at odds with such attention paid to this kind of innate material truth, but Zander presses for an elucidatory showcase of skill — carefully reducing the friction between reality and fantasy until the two combine.

Famed for his development of American Raku, a style in which the ware is fired surrounded by combustible material so as to smoke it — Soldner created his vessels and earthenware with the position that each is a point in an evolving and multi-faceted practice of expression, and that Raku could be grown (as it now has) from its point of origin to facilitate it. This large vessel shows just how freely expressive those pieces could be, the sculptor submitting fully to the clay’s form, function and limits to allow a pot that seems to fold in upon itself — the character of the hand-built walls and subtle coloration or auto-destruction all derived fully from the process of its creation. Large hand-built raku-fired vessel, USA; Signed and numbered 82-86-5301; 16" x 14" x 11" One flat chip to rim, appears to be in making of

Gouda is a style of Dutch pottery named after the city of Gouda. Gouda pottery gained worldwide prominence in the early 20th century and remains highly desirable to collectors today. Gouda pottery is diverse and visually distinctive in appearance, typically illustrated with colourful and highly decorated Art Nouveau or Art Deco designs.

Beautiful and colourfully glazed large vase designed and thrown around the turn of the 20th century, the motif depicting tulips in the Art Nouveau style particularly popular during that time. Viceroy & Boch often combined the contemporary surface design with classical silhouettes in a particularly visually pleasing marriage, the ceramics manufacturer appealing to its largely German market with several advancements and new forms of technique at this time. Large two-handled vase

This vessel reflects the elemental understanding of Chaleff’s mode of ceramic production, a structure roughly hewn and exhibiting the scars of its firing as imperative to the design and decoration. The distinct ash-glaze residue has been developed through a Japanese process of anagama wood-firing which the artist has championed and helped to revive in America over his career after studying in Japan across the 1970-80s, slowly increasing the scale and length of time under which the clay is fired to present remarkable combinations of surface detail.

Gouda is a style of Dutch pottery named after the city of Gouda. Gouda pottery gained worldwide prominence in the early 20th century and remains highly desirable to collectors today. Gouda pottery is diverse and visually distinctive in appearance, typically illustrated with colourful and highly decorated Art Nouveau or Art Deco designs. Four vases: Laurie (1923), Mary (1923), Vlam (1921) and bottle-shaped vase with slender neck (c.1925)

Sawaya & Moroni Italy, 1992 hand-hammered sterling silver 9 w x 5 d x 10.25 h in (23 x 13 x 26 cm) Signed with impressed manufacturer's mark and touchmarks to underside of each example: [La Varazione A Mano 925].