Hans Coper Composite form with central disc, circa 1967

Hans Coper
Composite form with central disc, circa 1967
Stoneware, black glaze over a textured and incised body.
24.6 x 15 x 5.5 cm
Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance
Private collection, The Netherlands
Cyril Frankel, London
Phillips, London, 'Design', 25 April 2013, lot 247
Joanna Bird, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014

Exhibited
'Lucie Rie and Hans Coper', Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 16 April–11 June 1967, then travelled to Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, 24 June-13 August 1967
'Masterworks: Lucie Rie and Hans Coper', Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, 21 April-3 June 2001
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Gallery 10 and the Industrial Gallery, June 2002-June 2004
'Masterpieces of Studio Pottery', Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 29 January-15 May 2005
'Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Art Alive is Always Modern', MIMA, Middlesbrough, 28 November 2008-15 February 2009

Literature
Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper-Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, pp. 48, 99 for a similar example
Cyril Frankel, Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & their Contemporaries: The Lisa Sainsbury Collection, London, 2000, p. 42 for a similar example
Tony Birks, Hans Coper, Catrine, 2013, p. 118 for a similar example