Lot 248 , Julian Stair OBE (b. 1955): A porcelain cylindrical pot

§ Julian Stair OBE (b. 1955): A porcelain cylindrical pot, the body with sgrafitto decoration in white against a black ground and black banding, the interior decoration reversed, incised signature to the underside, 11.5cm high

Provenance: Private collection, West Sussex

Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading ceramic artists, creating works of art on both a monumental and intimate scale. Stair has become a leading historian of English Studio Ceramics, completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art, researching the critical origins of English Studio Pottery.
After completing a degree in ceramics at Camberwell School of Art in 1978, Stair continued his studies at the Royal College of Art, London, graduating in 1981. Lady Sainsbury began to collect his work from this period, inviting Stair to the Sainsburys’ home in Smith Square, London, where he encountered their outstanding personal collection of art, including Tang figures, paintings by Francis Bacon and works by Hans Coper and Lucie Rie. The Sainsburys went on to help finance the set-up of his first studio in Brixton, London, with fellow ceramicist Sara Radstone, and continued to support his work.
£500-800