‡ Hans Coper (1920-1981)

‡ Hans Coper (1920-1981)

Bottle with Disc top, circa 1973

stoneware with layered slips and engobes over a body with textured and incised linear design, and manganese disc

impressed seal mark, applied number 53 exhibition label,

19cm. high

Provenance

The David Coachworth Collection.

Literature

Tony Birks The Art of the Modern Potter, Country Life, page 42 catalogue number 24 for two related, larger vases.

Tony Birks, Hans Coper, Collins, page 67 for a contemporary photograph of work by Hans Coper and Peter Collingwood, including three comparable vases, exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1969, (the right hand vase possibly this example).