Made in Britain

JAMES TOWER | GLACIER 5

Auction Closed

March 17, 04:17 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

JAMES TOWER

1919-1988

GLACIER 5

signed; also titled and numbered on a label affixed to the underside

earthenware with a black and white tin glaze

diameter: 30.5cm.; 12in.

Executed in 1982.

Gimpel Fils, London, 1982

Private Collection

Sale, Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 15th April 2015, lot 602, where acquired by the present owner

Timothy Wilcox, The Ceramic Art of James Tower, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2012, cat. no.151, illustrated p.158.

London, Gimpel Fils, James Tower, 30th November 1982 - 22nd January 1983, un-numbered exhibition.

We are grateful to the Estate of the Artist for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

'The objects which I strive to make are attempts at hymns to the beauty of the world'

James Tower, 1982