Bulbous vase on pedestal

Notes

The Ceramic Studio, re-named Linn Ware in 1943, was founded on Sir Thomas Cullinan's farm Olifantsfontein, outside Johannesburg, which had rich deposits of clay and lime. It was staffed mostly by women students from the Durban School of Art, several of whom studied further at the Royal College of Art, London. The Studio closed in the late 1950s but left behind a body of beautiful work that is highly collectable today.

Each piece was handmade and individually double-glazed, giving the work its distinctive and characteristic luminosity for which they became renowned. Several items make use of the pedestal, which requires a careful balance of form and structure.