‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962) 'Dark Celadon White Birds' a fine tall stoneware vase

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962)

'Dark Celadon White Birds' a fine tall stoneware vase, slender shouldered cylindrical form with stork neck and collar rim, slip decorated with three curlew in white with lavender translucency, on an oatmeal ground, impressed seal mark, paper exhibition label no.6, 40cm. high

Provenance

The Leferve Galleries, London, November 1931, catalogue number 6, priced at 15 guineas.

International Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, 19th September 2006 lot 1.

Exhibited

The Leferve Galleries, 1931

30 Pots, Woolley and Wallis, 2019, catalogue number 28.