Linn Ware
Bulbous vase with elongated neck
LOT 273
Linn Ware
Bulbous vase with elongated neck
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ZAR 3 000 - 5 000
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Cape Town
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About this Item
South African 1943-1955
Bulbous vase with elongated neck
double-glazed hand-thrown earthenware
height: 9,5cm; diameter: 10,5cm
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.
The mottled blue-green glaze, along with the delicate and well-balanced form of this vase, suggests the hand of a talented and accomplished ceramicist.
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