Bottle vase with disc

Details

HANS COPER (1920-1981)
Bottle vase with disc
impressed with artist's seal (on the underside)
stoneware, with layered porcelain slips over an incised body, and manganese glaze
8 5⁄8 in. (22 cm.) high

Provenance

Purchased by Riet Neerincx at the 1967 exhibition, and by descent.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, April - June 1967, no. 54: this exhibition travelled to Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, June - August 1967.

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Lot Essay

Riet Neerincx (1925-2012) worked for over sixty years in the field of applied arts and design. As a curator, Neerincx led the Applied Arts department as the Gemeente Museum in Arnhem, organising over a hundred temporary exhibitions, including Lucie Rie, Hans Coper in 1967. She was also a leading jewellery designer, producing mainly abstract brooches and rings in both gold and silver.

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