Lot 356: Thancoupie Born 1937 Untitled 1982 Hand-built stoneware, incised designs decorated with slip and oxide Signed on the base Height: 30cm diameter: 30cm Provenance Purchased directly from the artist, circa 1982 Private collection, Sydney Cf. Morphy, H.

Thancoupie Born 1937 Untitled 1982 Hand-built stoneware, incised designs decorated with slip and oxide Signed on the base Height: 30cm diameter: 30cm Provenance Purchased directly from the artist, circa 1982 Private collection, Sydney Cf. Morphy, H. Aboriginal Art, Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1998, p. 351, plate 235, for a later example: Thancoupie comes from the hometown of Weipa, north of Aurukun... the circular forms of her pots are said to relate to the fire- hardened clay balls that were used to conserve and trade pigments for use in ritual. Her pots, with their deeply incised designs, draw on traditional mythological themes from her Thanaquith culture'; Kleinert, S. & M. Neale, Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Newyork, 2000, p. 713