Inspiration and Protégé
Live Virtual Auction, 13 June 2022
Ditchburn & Armstrong
Lot Estimate
ZAR 700 - 900
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 797
About this Item
A Crosskeys Pottery stoneware vase (1951-1960)
the bell-shaped body with elongated neck and moulded lip, glazed in shades of brown, ochre and charcoal, impressed factory seal mark, 11cm high
Notes
Crosskeys Pottery, Jan and Zoe Ellison, Cambridge 1951 - 1960.*
Impressed seal mark used at Crosskeys Pottery, 1951 - 1960 and subsequently as the personal mark of Mrs. Ellison on her individual stonewares made Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridge, from 1960.
*Mr. Jan Ellison helped to start the first Canadian Art Pottery in the Rockies in 1919; he subsequently concentrated on sculpture in Paris and London. After the war Mr. and Mrs. Ellison turned to pottery and studied under the leading English potters before starting their own Crosskeys Pottery at Cambridge.
Provenance
Professor Hilda Rose Ditchburn (1917 - 1986)
The Ceramic Collection of the Late Professor Juliet Armstrong (1950 - 2012)
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