Alan Wallwork Vessel Vase Pottery Sculpture TOTEM White Brown Terracotta

Bernard Rook (b.1938): Organic Waterscape Vase, 1960-1965 Rare example of Rooke’s oeuvre demonstrating his inventive artistic talents to the full - A ...

Contemporary vessel, orange & grey, 24” high Striking, lively vessel exploring colour and texture juxtapositions The right orange is balanced by the grey background and the cont...

Alan Wallwork (1931-2019): Organic landscape sculptural vessel, 1960-1965 -Exhibiting the articulated, inventive, organic qualities & tactility of Wallwork’s early oeuvre for which he is best known - This sculptural landscape vessel has been handmade by coiling, slabbing and shaping the clay. The totemic form and pitted and pierced surfaces draw on the abstract landscape and tactility of elements in nature. matte glazes and oxides have been skillfully used to enhance the rich textures of the surfaces and the organic aesthetic. - Wallwork is one of the great individualists in British pottery, developing an archetypal language that echoed some of the wider artistic obsessions of that period, what the art critic Herbert Read called the “postwar ferment” of sculptural activity. - This piece was made during 1960-1965, the time that Wallwork was sharing a studio in Greenwich with Bernard Rooke and comes from a private collection along with a waterscape vase by Rooke and a bottle by Robert Fournier...

This Mid-Century Modernist Ceramic Vase With Banded Detailing is a beautiful example of Post War European Ceramics, realized in Hódmezovasarhely Majolikagyár, Hungary circa 1960. With a Stunning textural finish composed in Cream White and Blackened Umber, the surface of each vase features Molten Geometric Motifs unique to each Vessel. The quality of the surface balances the materiality of the glaze with the scale and emotional expression of the line work, seamlessly integrating the intrinsic nature of ceramic with the touch and inspiration of the maker. This particular vase has horizontal lines creating bands of space delineating the Silhouette and profile...