This is a collectable stylish lustre cube shaped pot or bowl made by Margery Clinton. It has a main body section covered with lustre glazes with the decoration based on leaves and plant forms. There is a little foot below - which has a plain black glaze. The simple shape is very Japanese in inspiration.
Margery seems to have been fond of these angular cube shapes - and the shape of this pot is similar to a lamp by her that I have previously sold.
It is a certainly fine piece of Scottish pottery and so beautifully made.
The pot is hand-thrown and beautifully made. The glazes on this piece are just so exquisite and show Clinton at her finest. .
This fine sculptural pot is a little more unusual and this is reflected in the asking price. I have taken lots of photographed for your inspection.
Dimensions: The overall height is just over 4 1/2 inches. Each side is just under 4 inches.
It has her hand-signed and customary initialed signature on the base, as photographed. The date that this pot of made is documented in the signature. This was the 24th November 1983.
The pot will be sent to you with Royal Mail Tracked Postage. This will be applied to your order at the checkout.
HISTORY: Margery Clinton (1931–2005) was a specialist in reduction lustre glazes. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953 and was part of the Young Glasgow group, whose inaugural exhibition was held at the McLellan Galleries in 1958.
She undertook her postgraduate study at the Royal College of Art, London, researching reduction lustre glazes, an interest she later developed with great success.
She also undertook a number of notable architectural commissions later in her life, and her work with tiles was regarded as spectacular. She has been exhibited at the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Glasgow Art Gallery and the Royal Museum of Scotland.
An outstanding ceramic mural, The Physic Garden, commissioned for the tercentenary of Mary Erskine School, in Edinburgh, typifies her imaginative portrayal of medicinal herbal plants in six panels, in memory of the founder's husband, James Hair, an Edinburgh druggist. Appropriately, she chose Jonah and the Whale as the subject for a large decorative panel in the new Musselburgh Baths.
She was particularly interested in lustre glazing in Islamic art, and she travelled widely, attracting the attention of the Sultan of Oman and the King of Jordan. She executed commissions for both, and for the Duke of Edinburgh.
Currently, examples of her work are currently on display in the Scottish Design Galleries at the V&A Museum in Dundee, and the Museum of Edinburgh on the Royal Mile.