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Pot
Coper, Hans, born 1920 - died 1981 - Enlarge image
Pot
- Place of origin:
Great Britain, UK (made)
- Date:
1975 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Coper, Hans, born 1920 - died 1981 (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Stoneware, with white matt glaze, interior with black glaze
- Museum number:
CIRC.398-1976
- Gallery location:
National Art Library, room 76, case 15
Having arriving in England as an émigré from Nazi Germany, Hans Coper gained employment making ceramic buttons in the workshop of Lucie Rie in 1946. He went on to become one of the most celebrated potters of the post-war period, producing work with intense sculptural presence. Exploring a restricted range of highly individual forms, he combined an interest in Modernist sculpture with a sense of the archaic.

