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Theo Schoon, Len Castle & Steve Rumsey - Rare and important press moulded stoneware dish
Starting Bid: $5,600
Reserve not met
Estimate:
$8,000 - $14,000
Ended
Timed Auction
199 New Collectors Art & Studio Ceramics
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Description
Theo Schoon, Len Castle & Steve Rumsey
Rare and important press moulded stoneware dish
decorated with impressed Theo Schoon stamp designs
signed with incised initials to the base and with affixed label from Steve Rumsey
70 x 270 x 270mm
Note: This dish was a creative collaboration between Steve Rumsey, Len Castle and Theo Schoon. 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 Schoon who, sitting cross legged 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, Volume No. 27, No. 2 1985, p. 19 - 21.
Provenance: Collection of Steve Rumsey. Private Collection, Auckland.
Rare and important press moulded stoneware dish
decorated with impressed Theo Schoon stamp designs
signed with incised initials to the base and with affixed label from Steve Rumsey
70 x 270 x 270mm
Note: This dish was a creative collaboration between Steve Rumsey, Len Castle and Theo Schoon. 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 Schoon who, sitting cross legged 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, Volume No. 27, No. 2 1985, p. 19 - 21.
Provenance: Collection of Steve Rumsey. Private Collection, Auckland.
Condition
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