Studio Pottery Sculpture Vessel by Antonia Salmon burnished & smoke fired 1980s

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This piece was hand crafted by Antonia Salmon and is one of her early works. Its thrown in a stoneware clay, incised and hand burnished and then smoke fired in a pit creating beautiful variations in tone and colour. It is signed towards the base with Antonia’s (AS) Monogram. It measures approx. 7.7 high x 6 inches in diameter. This fabulous pot is in excellent condition No chips cracks or repairs!The skilled precision and attention to detail required to create this piece is quite staggering! My photography does not do this piece justice!Early Antonia Salmon works can only increase in value and so are a sound future investment.See ref: http://www./also similar works at: /shop/category/antonia-salmon/Profile of Antonia SalmonAntonia Salmon’s burnished and smoke fired vessels and sculptural pieces belong to a modern tradition of British sculpture that refines and distils the forms found in the natural world. Educated at Sheffield University, she then went on to study ceramics at Harrow School of Art, and after a period in London, set up a studio in Sheffield in 1989, close to the moorland landscape from which she has drawn so much. Her work is constantly evolving; from discs and standing forms, she has moved onto more articulated balanced pieces and more recently, twisting spiralled shapes, some suggestive of water movement or marine read more