Linn Ware/Ceramic Studio
Jug and Cover
Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 035
About this Item
Olifantsfontein, 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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