Large Slipware Cycle Lane Vase

A Large Cycle Lane Vase made in 2005.

Sold in Auction by Toovey’s Auction House in Sussex to a private collection

The form of coil built red Staffordshire earthenware illustrated with beetles against orange and white spots on a black ground using slipware traditions of slip trailing, painting and sgraffito, and finished with a transparent gloss glaze  to 1120°C oxidation firing.

34 cm high, signed and dated, and impressed ‘KS’