Inspiration and Protégé
Live Virtual Auction, 13 June 2022
Ditchburn & Armstrong
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About this Item
A blue and dark-grey glazed stoneware bowl, Hilda Ditchburn, 1960s
the interior painted with a band of blue spearhead motifs alternating with triangular strap work between charcoal grey borders, the reverse similarly decorated, moulded HR monogram, 8cm high; a dark green and brown glazed stoneware dish, Hilda Ditchburn 1966, the centre decorated with circular bands heightened with hatching and dark green strapwork, highlighted with silver lustre, the reverse with herring-bone border, green glazed base, HR monogram, 24,5cm diameter; and a green and mottled brown-glazed stoneware vase, Hilda Ditchburn, 1960s, the ovoid body loosely decorated with organic foliate medallions, impressed HR stamp, 20cm 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Candice Vurovecz (2008) Hilda Ditchburn; A Teacher and Pioneer of Stoneware Ceramics in Southern Africa, Unpublished MAFA dissertation, UKZN, Pietermaritzburg, illustrated in black and white on page 58.