Linn Ware

Bulbous vase with elongated neck

About the Session

From early Cape furniture to mid-century classics and contemporary pieces, this selection of furniture, ceramics, glass and bronzes, traces a journey through more than two hundred years of South African design.


Current Bid

ZAR 4 000
Lot 430
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck
  • Linn Ware; Bulbous vase with elongated neck


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ZAR 4 000 - 5 000
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Current bid ZAR 4 000
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Cape Town
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About this Item

Olifantsfontein, South Africa 1943-1955
Bulbous vase with elongated neck

'LINN' painted in oxide script on the underside

double-glazed, hand-thrown earthenware
height: 26cm; diameter: 14cm

Notes

The Ceramic Studio, renamed Linn Ware in 1943, was founded on Sir Thomas Cullinan's farm Olifantsfontein outside Johannesburg. The area had rich deposits of clay and lime which made it ideally situated for a ceramic factory. 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.

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