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Theo Schoon 'Rare and important stoneware dish'
Estimate:
$12,000 - $18,000
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Theo Schoon
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Description
Theo Schoon
Rare and important stoneware dish
press-moulded and decorated with impressed Theo Schoon stamp designs
signed with Theo Schoon’s initials and dated 1984 on label to underside
50 x 280 x 280mm
Note
This dish was a creative collaboration between Steve Rumsey, Len Castle and Theo Schoon. It is one of only four known examples. In 1985 Theo Schoon was living in Mangere in a retirement home, weak and frail as a result of emphysema. This dish was formed by Steve Rumsey from a Len Castle mould then given to Theo Schoon who, sitting crosslegged in bed, decorated the dish with his impressed stamp designs. After firing, the dish was rubbed with manganese dioxide and fired by Steve Rumsey in his electric kiln.
A similar dish is held in the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.
Illustrated
New Zealand Potter Magazine, Volume No. 27, No. 2 1985, p. 19-21.
Provenance
Collection of Steve Rumsey, thence by descent.
Rare and important stoneware dish
press-moulded and decorated with impressed Theo Schoon stamp designs
signed with Theo Schoon’s initials and dated 1984 on label to underside
50 x 280 x 280mm
Note
This dish was a creative collaboration between Steve Rumsey, Len Castle and Theo Schoon. It is one of only four known examples. In 1985 Theo Schoon was living in Mangere in a retirement home, weak and frail as a result of emphysema. This dish was formed by Steve Rumsey from a Len Castle mould then given to Theo Schoon who, sitting crosslegged in bed, decorated the dish with his impressed stamp designs. After firing, the dish was rubbed with manganese dioxide and fired by Steve Rumsey in his electric kiln.
A similar dish is held in the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.
Illustrated
New Zealand Potter Magazine, Volume No. 27, No. 2 1985, p. 19-21.
Provenance
Collection of Steve Rumsey, thence by descent.
