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Lot 17: JAMES TOWER

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USDSold:
PhillipsNew York, NY, USDecember 13, 2011

Item Overview

Description

“Waving reeds” vessel, no. 40
Underside incised with “James Tower/79.”

Dimensions

12 1/2 × 23 × 9 in. (31.8 × 58.4 × 22.9 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Medium

Earthenware, layered black and white glazes, the design etched through the unfired glaze.

Date

1979

Exhibited

“James Tower,” Art Latitude, New York, January 8–February 2, 1980

Provenance

Art Latitude, New York; Bonhams, <em>Contemporary Ceramics</em>, London, March 21, 1991

Notes

The present lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonn&#233; by Timothy Wilcox, The Ceramic Art of James Tower, Lund Humphries, April 2012.

Auction Details

Design Masters

by
Phillips
December 13, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

450 West 15 Street, New York, NY, 10011, US