‡ Michael Cardew (1901-1983) an Abuja Pottery earthenware plate

‡ Michael Cardew (1901-1983)

an Abuja Pottery earthenware plate, the well slip decorated with combed design, the rim with cut-away pattern, in olive green and celadon highlighted in tenmoku, and an Abuja Pottery vase by Alhassan Tanko, applied with three looped handles, impressed seal marks, 21.5cm. diam. (2)

Provenance

Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London 27th February 1989, lot 35.

Contemporary Ceramics, Christie's London 20th June 1988 lot 98.

Exhibited

20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 20.