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Provenance
A private collection.
Wonderfully symptomatic of Asibi Ido's preference for smaller pottery works with a high level of decoration, the two small present beakers both display varying sgrafitto in differing compositions. Unique in her body of work as we know it, the present lots were easy fired with a slip glaze when completed, resulting in light matte colour. With a base of a light and high quality Body 44 clay with a dual use of both a black slip (the upper half of both works) and a white slip (the lower half of each work and the rim of each beaker), the present two works are fine displays of aesthetic adventurism practised by Ido.
With each circle rhythmically incised in one of the beakers and the expressive scoring around the circumference of the other, there is a great sense here that Ido was thoroughly invested in the creation of these two works. They display her commitment to the craft and ambition in developing a modern Gwari pottery practise.
Bibliography
John Edgeler, Michael Cardew and stoneware, continuity and change, (Winchcombe: Cotswolds living Publications, 2008)