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Geoffrey Whiting (1919 - 1988)
Two stoneware flower vases:

The first with tall sides, decorated in a patchwork design of tenmoku and speckled grey rectangles, some containing abstract floral motifs, impressed Avoncroft and GW seals to the edge of the base

The second of rounded rhomboid form, decorated in brown, kaki and whitish-grey glazes with an abstract swirl design, impressed Avoncroft and GW seals to the edge of the foot
17.2cm. and 16cm. high respectively

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Geoffrey Whiting was born in Stocksfield, Northumberland. He studied to be an architect, but during a visit to India he settled in a village and worked with a family of local potters. After six and a half years there making simple, unglazed earthenware, he returned to England and set up the Avoncroft Pottery in Worcestershire. He specialised in high-fired stoneware and porcelain. In 1972 he established a studio in Canterbury, where he also taught. It was here he started teaching a twelve year old Edmund de Waal, who later became an apprentice aged seventeen.

For works by Edmund de Waal in this sale see lots 126 and 127.