‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962) a stoneware vase compressed ovoid form

‡William Staite Murray (1881-1962)

a stoneware vase compressed ovoid form, painted with a running horse in iron on a pitted oatmeal ground, impressed seal mark, 13cm. high

Provenance

Decorative Arts, Sotheby's 4th December 1985 lot 345

Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams 26th March 1992 lot 94

Exhibited

Gorgeously Grotesque Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, 2003 catalogue number 61.

30 Pots, Woolley and Wallis 2019, catalogue number 13

Literature

Ronald Cooper, The Modern Potter, John Tiranti Ltd, 1947, page 32, catalogue number 39 for a comparable vase titled Tiger.

Dr Jeffrey Jones Studio Pottery in Britain 1900-2005, A&C Black Publishers, illustrated page 58.