Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Online-Only Auction, 14 - 25 April 2022
Ceramics: Including works from the Sheila Nowers Collection
About the SessionIn this session, Strauss & Co presents a lovely assortment of Ceramic Art featuring works from the Sheila Nowers Collection. Sheila Nowers was a watercolour artist working on an intimate scale. In her collection is a variety of ceramics by her brother John Nowers and an assortment from his then partner, Hylton Nel. The two artists met in 1967 in London and later moved to Gqeberha where they opened an antique shop. Each artist made innovative references to iconography in world ceramics, antique Staffordshire forms, and Chinese oriental pieces from their personal collections.
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About this Item
signed and dated 21.9.92 on the reverse
Notes
"The fog of night envelops the flowering trees;
the springtime river floats the disc of the moon.
When this happiness comes,
the mind cannot be controlled.
The climax of joy is hard to put into words."
-Táng Yin
Provenance
Estate Late Mr Stuart John Saunders.
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