Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962)

a fine stoneware footed bowl, conical form, painted and incised to the interior with a series of wavy bands, in rust on an oatmeal glaze under white translucent splashes, the exterior oatmeal with translucent runs, impressed seal mark, incised N, 22cm. diam, 11cm. high

Provenance

Christopher Wood Gallery, 1980

Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, 16th November 1989, lot 4.

Ed Wolfe Collection, purchased by Daryl in 2004.

Exhibited

British 20th Century Studio Ceramics, Christopher Wood Gallery, 1980,

British Studio Pottery From Bernard Leach to Lucie Rie, Chichester Cathedral/Pallant House, 2005, catalogue number 40.

30 Pots, Woolley and Wallis, 2019, catalogue number 8.

Literature

Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery, Yale/Fitzwilliam, Museum, exhibition catalogue, page 250-251, catalogue number 50 for a comparable bowl entitled Vortex illustrated.