Hans Coper White ‘Cycladic’ Arrow form with disc-top 1975 Stoneware, layered white porcelain slips and engobes over a body with textured, and incised linear designs, the interior and disc with manganese glaze, the base with a black glaze. 18.3 cm (7 1/4 in) high Impressed with artist’s seal.
Provenance Robert Welch Gallery, Chipping Camden, UK, 1975 Exhibited ‘Memorial Collection’, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, January–September 1983, then travelled to: Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (January–March 1984), Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, (March–May 1984), Serpentine Gallery, London (June–July 1984); ‘Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their pupils: a selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2 October–16 December 1990 and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Adeane Gallery, Cambridge, 22 January–1 April 1991; ‘Lucie Rie/Hans Coper’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 15 November 1994–21 May 1995; ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Potters in Parallel’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, February–May 1997; ‘Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th-Century Ceramics’, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, 12 September–29 November 2009, then travelled to: The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shiga (13 March–17 June 2010), Panasonic Electric Works, Shiodome Museum, Tokyo (26 June–5 September 2010), Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (18 September– 23 November 2010), Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate (4 December 2010–13 February 2011), and Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka (9 April–26 June 2011) Literature Derek Gillman, et al., Lucie Rie Hans Coper and their pupils: A selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p. 11; Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated pp. 48 and 118; Tony Birks, Hans Coper Somerset, 2005, p.182; Maya Nishi, ed., Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th Century Ceramics, exh. cat., The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, et al., 2009, illustrated p. 87, fig. 85 and p. 178
Hans Coper White ‘Cycladic’ Arrow form with disc-top 1975 Stoneware, layered white porcelain slips and engobes over a body with textured, and incised linear designs, the interior and disc with manganese glaze, the base with a black glaze. 18.3 cm (7 1/4 in) high Impressed with artist’s seal.
Provenance Robert Welch Gallery, Chipping Camden, UK, 1975 Exhibited ‘Memorial Collection’, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, January–September 1983, then travelled to: Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf (January–March 1984), Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, (March–May 1984), Serpentine Gallery, London (June–July 1984); ‘Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their pupils: a selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2 October–16 December 1990 and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Adeane Gallery, Cambridge, 22 January–1 April 1991; ‘Lucie Rie/Hans Coper’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 15 November 1994–21 May 1995; ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Potters in Parallel’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, February–May 1997; ‘Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th-Century Ceramics’, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, 12 September–29 November 2009, then travelled to: The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shiga (13 March–17 June 2010), Panasonic Electric Works, Shiodome Museum, Tokyo (26 June–5 September 2010), Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (18 September– 23 November 2010), Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate (4 December 2010–13 February 2011), and Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka (9 April–26 June 2011) Literature Derek Gillman, et al., Lucie Rie Hans Coper and their pupils: A selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p. 11; Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated pp. 48 and 118; Tony Birks, Hans Coper Somerset, 2005, p.182; Maya Nishi, ed., Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th Century Ceramics, exh. cat., The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, et al., 2009, illustrated p. 87, fig. 85 and p. 178
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