The Juanita Bird Collection of Linn Ware and 20th Century Ceramics
Online-Only Auction, 10 - 15 November 2021
Linn Ware and 20th Century Ceramics
About the Session"The works of Linn Ware (founded in 1943), and those of its predecessor at the Olifantsfontein site, Ceramic Studio (founded in 1925), bear testimony to the creative vision of a group of women whose original vision set the standard for domestic and decorative pottery in South Africa in the mid-twentieth century. Linn Ware is renowned for the consistent quality of its ceramics, and is almost synonymous with deep, rich and sumptuous green and turquoise glazed wares. These potteries, along with Globe (founded in Pretoria c.1920), paved the way for subsequent potteries in the quest to articulate a contemporary South African pottery canon."
Wendy Gers
Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 000 - 1 500
About this Item
Staffordshire, England
A Clarice Cliff Bizarre 'Crocus' pattern tea plateblack printed factory mark 17,5cm diameter; a Wedgwood Clarice Cliff Collection 'Blue Crocus' pattern covered preserve pot, 2002, black printed factory mark 11cm high; and a catalogue Taking Tea with Clarice Cliff by Leonard Griffin, photography by Michael Slaney, Pavilion Books, published 1996, together with a Wedgwood trade catalogue (3)
Provenance
The Juanita Bird Collection, Johannesburg.
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