BY TAMSIN VON ESSEN, FROM MEDICAL HEIRLOOMS SERIES

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A WHITE CERAMIC 'ACNE' APOTHECARY JAR
BY TAMSIN VON ESSEN, FROM MEDICAL HEIRLOOMS SERIES
The body and flared base with pock like indentations to the surface
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Medical Heirlooms is a series by the celebrated ceramicist Tamsin Von Essen, the series explores the stigma of diseases, questioning contemporary obsessions with perfection and beauty. She uses the medium to emulate the scars and damage inflicted on the body by disease and deliberately encourages 'faults', 'defects' and 'blemishes.' The forms of the vases are based on 17th and 18th Century Apothecary jars.

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