Hans Coper (1920-1981), 1960S

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Hans Coper (1920-1981)
1960s
A stoneware vase, white slip over manganese, the interior manganese, impressed HC seal within the footring
17.6cm. high

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Lot Essay

Surface and texture are integral to Hans Coper's work, which is clear in this piece. His pots were thrown on a kick-wheel and most were made in two sections, carefully joined.

For a vase of similar shape in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (MOMA), accession number 2250.2001, go to http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=1084

For further reading see Paul Rice, British Studio Ceramics, (Marlborough, 2002), p. 91-102.

For another work by hjans Coper in this sale see lot 28.