
Helene Love-Allotey
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Provenance
A private collection.
The present work a unique and rare example of Ladi Kwali's where she has opted not to use sgraffito in her work. Innovative nonetheless, the present work seems to bear a white slip and then a black slip on top of this, resulting in this rich dripping appearance we seen on it's surface. Given the colour technique that Ladi Kwali has opted for, the use of an 'AA' glaze (which is clear glaze) would enable the rhythmic flow of the slips to be experienced without any additional colour added by pigmentation in the glaze.
Bibliography
John Edgeler, Michael Cardew and stoneware, continuity and change, (Winchcombe: Cotswolds living Publications, 2008)