The Burt Reynolds of wall sculptures, A wild child of the 70s. Ribbed terracotta earthenware slab work, glazed in earthy tones, with greys and whites splashed loosely over.

It’s all about texture, tone, negative space and shadow. It also shows a total commitment to experimentation with materials.

This piece is unsigned, but note the muscular slab-built Brutalism and think about the influence of American Brutalist sculptor-potters Peter Voulkos and Paul Soldner, who appear to have been known to the maker.

This piece comes from the extensive 1960s, 70s and 80s ceramics collection of an Ikebana enthusiast. Like any good piece of Ikebana pottery, it provides raw texture, robust structure and pure materiality.

A great opportunity for textural and tonal play wherever it hangs - in raking light, hanging vertically or horizontally, on contrasting or on complimentary backgrounds.

It has extra thread holes for wall mounting. The raw hide hanger can be un-knotted and re-threaded to hang any way up.

This one has grown on us. It's one of those objects that seems a little odd at first but richly rewards over time, providing hard-to-find originality and integrity.

MEASURES:

26cm W x 46cm H x 6cm D

CONDITION:

Very good. A small repair has been made and then re-glazed, on a cleanly cracked rib. Final two images show closeups of the apparently repaired areas. These are difficult to find on inspection.