South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Interior Elements: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Ceramic & Glass Art
About the SessionThis sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 11 139
About this Item
South African 1971-
Vase with relief pattern
signed on the base
porcelain
26cm high, 30cm diameter
Notes
Ian Garrett is a South African master ceramicist who has had a lifelong fascination with the age-old craft of hand-building, burnishing, and pit-firing ceramics. His vessels appear both timeless and strikingly contemporary.
The linear textures on this vessel suggest cartographic contours or magnetic fields.
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