Collectible Raku teabowl by Andrew Walford famous SA studio potter circa 1980's

Offered for sale is a striking and unusual teabowl or chawan made by Andrew Walford probably the most famous and highly rated contemporary  South Africa studio potter , second generation working in the Anglo -Oriental craft tradition inspired by Japanese Zen  aesthetics and famously associated with Bernard Leach a Britsih art potter who is credited with bringing the Raku ceramic technique to the West circa 1911. This appears to be a hand thrown rather than hand buit piece with a thick running lava like off white glaze and flashes of cobalt blue. Typically the tea bowl has the sooty crackle glaze and random colouration associated with Raku reduction oxidation firing processes ie Raku pieces are usually removed from the kiln at red hot temperatures and rapidly cooled, usually placed in an outdoor environment in a container with combustile material like newspaper, sawdust or straw which causes the smoking and crackle in the glaze. This piece has the artist " chop mark " in a circle impressed on the side of the bowl. Postage for this item is R100 via Postnet or R140 for courier delivery to major cities in SA. Collection is welcome from Emmerantia Jhb.