Sale 7916
London, South Kensington
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4 March 1998
Price realised
GBP 552
Estimate
GORDON BALDWIN OBE 'Flag Vessel' an earthenware vase, the shaped slab body on compressed cone-shaped base, covered in a greyish-white slip with incised linear decoration and abstract brushwork in blue, green, mauve, yellow and black matt glazes, inscribed GB and dated 83 - 84 (damage) - 56.4.cm high
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Literature
Paul Rice and Christopher Gowing 'British Studio Ceramics in the 20th Century', Barrie and Jenkins, 1989, illustrated on page 139
Exhibited
Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1989
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