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Large
Jar.
Stoneware, oatmeal glaze with iron and cobalt brush work. Impressed
with the potter's personal mark to outside of the turned foot.
This jar with it's strong references to the storage jars of the
Song Dynasty and to the east in general fully illustrates Peppers
pre-occupations with the eastern aesthetic. For a similar jar see
page 205, "British Studio Ceramics in the 20th Century"
by Paul Rice.
Size:
h.26cmsØ. 24.cms
Ref: OW/MP1
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Malcolm
Pepper 1937-80
Pepper's pieces are extremely rare,
he was very much an "Oriental" potter more in the Staite
Murray vain than Leach. Pepper used a wide range of glazes and brush
work in iron and cobalt.
Malcolm Pepper came to prominence in 1980 with a large exhibition
(over one-hundred pieces) at the Casson Gallery in London. Tragically
Pepper died at the age of 44, a short time before the exhibition opened.
His work is so rare both because of his untimely death and that also
he was something of a perfectionist who destroyed much of his work
that he felt was not was not good enough. |
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A Large
Charger (display plate).
Stoneware, oatmeal glaze with iron and cobalt brush work. A
magnificent charger by Malcolm Pepper. Impressed potter's personal
seal to outside of the turned foot
Stand not included
Size:
h.35.5cms Ø. 6.5.cms
Ref: OC/MP2
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Footed
Bowl.
Stoneware footed bowl with a fine crackle celadon glaze. This
bowl is Pep at his best, a pure song dynasty bowl, even fired on
props in the Oriental way.
Size: h.9.0cms Ø.22.0.cms
Ref: OC/MP3
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| Malcolm
Pepper (or Pep as he was known to his family and friends) throwing
at his wheel 1979. |
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Bottle
Vase.
Stoneware bottle glazed in a tenmoku glazed that has pulled
down the pot and broken to rust in the firing, the glaze is a close
relative of the well known hare's fur type glazes made in the 14C
around Jian in southern China.
Size: h.16.0cms Ø.13.0.cms
Ref: OC/MP4
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In
the earlier part of Peps career he very rarely marked his pots. A
close family member told me of the occasion that the Director of the
Oriental Ceramics Department at the V&A Museum visited Pep to
ask if he would start marking his work. The Director was concerned
that a number of pieces by Pep had been brought into the museum as
original Chinese pots.
Though two of the pieces exhibited here for sale are unmarked, all
these pieces come from Peps immediate family and can be fully authenticated
as made by him. |
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Large
Celadon Bowl.
Stoneware, glazed in a beautiful crackle celadon glaze. This
is a large and impressive bowl. Impressed with the potter's personal
mark.
Size:
h.7.5cms Ø.31.5.cms
Ref: OC/MP5
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oakwoodceramics.co.uk
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