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Markets · Ceramics & Glass
Porcelain, studio pottery and glass, with every hairline declared
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Illustrative lot · fictional
A studio stoneware bottle vase, impressed potter's seal, circa 1975
Of compressed globular form with a narrow neck, covered in a tenmoku glaze breaking to rust at the shoulder. 21 cm high.
Estimate NZ$400–600
- Condition
- Small glaze skip to the foot rim, in the making. No chips, cracks or restoration seen.
- Provenance
- Purchased from the potter's studio; private collection, Auckland.
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Add the base and its mark, the rim against the light, the detail of a repair. Bidders compare them without asking you to send more.
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Group porcelain, studio pottery and glass, or factory by factory, and bidders filter the catalogue or search for a potter's name.
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Kauri & Cobalt Auction Rooms is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in ceramics & glass looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
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