Large Globe studio ceramic hand made vase circa 1940's pale moss green glaze 27cm height

Offered for sale is a fine, large and collectible Globe Potteries vase made in New Muckleneuck Pretoria circa 1940's. This is a hand made vase  made from red bodied clay ; the form is an elegant  and simplistic urn shape with a baluster body and broad slightly  flared neck and round base with a shallow ring foot. The vase has a stunning and unusual hare fur glaze in a pale moss green with running streaks and stipples in a russet brown. The glaze is achieved by adding bone ash to glaze with a high iron content and firing in a very hot kiln to facilitate glaze run. The ceramic historian Wendy Gers points out that Globe Potteries used brick built down-draught kilns to fire their ceramics and were slow to introduce modern gas fired  kilns, jiggers and apparatus to facilitate a more controlled manufacturing  environment . The glaze was developed by a chemist named Hattingh. Four potters were responsible for designing and making the forms, Kansamy, Aucamp and two De Beer brothers. 

Globe Potteries was established in the 1920's prior to The Ceramic Studio ( fore-runner to Linn Ware Studios) and closed in 1958. As such they were one of the oldest and most established commercial studio pottery manufacturers in South Africa . They were major rivals to the Linn Ware company but in my opinion  are presently undervalued in terms of the quality of their output and the refinement of shapes and glazes. The glazes developed by Globe Potteries are in my estimation often superior to Linn Ware items produced in the 1940's/50's. A large degree of hype has accrued to the selling and collecting of Linn Ware largely due to aggressive  marketing by art auctioneers , high end antique dealers and the secondary antique trade which have inflated prices. 

Dimensions of vase: 27cm high; width at the widest point of the body 16cm; base 11cm wide ; neck/aperture 10.5cm 

Postage for this item  is R100 via Sapo  or R190 for courier delivery or alternatively collect from Emmerantia Jhb.