Bridget Drakeford, green glazed studio pottery porcelain bottle vase, c2000
Size: 16 cm tall, width approximately 10 cm. Condition: Excellent condition, no chip, cracks or restoration. This is an elegant vase with a tiny neck and rim, thrown in porcelain clay and finished in high fired glazes with a stoneware type finish and subtle mottling and variations. It is signed by Bridget Drakeford on the footrim and also has an impressed Chinese style seal mark. Bridget Drakeford (born 1946) has been a prizewinner at the Mashiko Ceramics Competition in Japan, and at the World Ceramic Exposition in Korea. She won an Arts Council Award for an exhibition and study tour to Japan in 2005. She is a professional member of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain and has exhibited widely at major venues throughout Britain and Internationally. Bridget’s first workshop was established in South West Scotland in 1977, and she moved in 1994 to Herefordshire, where she now has a studio at home. She has had no formal training, but an interest in oriental ceramics led to her becoming a maker and to the development of her own style. She works exclusively in porcelain, taking her inspiration from Far Eastern ceramics. Using reduction firings to produce both copper red (‘sang de boeuf’) and celadon glazes, Bridget uses an electric kiln as well at times, researching and making her own glazes based on those traditionally used in China.
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