Mid Century Modern Furniture & Design

Timed Online Auction, 6 - 18 September 2024

Glass, Ceramics and Silver

Sold for

ZAR 7 035
Lot 94
  • Linn Ware/ Ceramic Studio; Jug and Cover


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 035

About this Item

South Africa 1925 - 1955
Jug and Cover

signed

blue-glazed stoneware
41cm high, 24cm wide over handle

Notes

The Ceramic Studio, renamed Linn Ware in 1940 was founded by Sir Thomas Cullinan at Olifantsfontein, a farm outside Johannesburg that had rich deposits of clay and lime. It was staffed mostly by women students from the Durban School of Art, who lived and worked on the farm.

Each piece was handmade and individually double-glazed, giving the work its distinctive and characteristic luminosity for which they became renowned.

The Studio closed around 1955 but left behind a body of beautiful work produced over a period of 20 years.

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