Inspiration and Protégé
Live Virtual Auction, 13 June 2022
Ditchburn & Armstrong
About this Item
A brown and sienna-glazed earthenware bowl, Hilda Ditchburn, 1952
the interior incised with triple arch border, the reverse etched with bands of hatching, raised on an unglazed foot, incised HR’ 52, 8,5cm high; another, glazed in dark brown mirror-black, the reverse incised with bands of hatching and dot-and-dash decoration, raised on an unglazed foot, painted HR’52, 8,7cm high; another similar, with brown-glazed interior, the reverse with vertical panels incised with foliate sprays, impressed with HR monogram, 9cm high; and another, glazed in dark brown and mirror-black, the reverse incised with bands of vertical decoration, impressed HR monogram, 8,3cm high
Provenance
Professor Hilda Rose Ditchburn (1917 - 1986)
The Ceramic Collection of the Late Professor Juliet Armstrong (1950 - 2012)
Literature
Candice Vurovecz (2008) Hilda Ditchburn; A Teacher and Pioneer of Stoneware Ceramics in Southern Africa, Unpublished MAFA dissertation, UKZN, Pietermaritzburg, illustrated in black and white on page 58.