Micki Schloessingk, vintage studio pottery salt glazed vase or vessel, c1980
Size: 17 cm tall, maximum width of base 11 cm. Condition: Very good condition, no chips cracks or restoration. A lovely example of Micki’s wood-fired salt-glazed tableware, fired to a high stoneware temperature. The vase is deceptively simple in design, thrown and altered and carefully arranged in the kiln to take advantage of the varied effect of wood firing, with a lovely tactile quality and lustrous sheen. The vase has Micki’s personal impressed marked and is also incised MD for Micki Doherty. Micki was married to the potter Jack Doherty in the 1970/1980s. Micki Schloessingk (born 1949) is an internationally renowned potter and a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, and she exhibits and teaches widely. Her work, which has been for 50 years consistent in its quiet and reflective approach, is still very much in vogue, and Micki recently featured in the May/June issue of Ceramic Review. After some early experience with ceramics, Micki studied under Mick Casson and Victor Margrie on the Studio Pottery Course at Harrow College of Art, in London (1970-72). She was taught by Walter Keeler and Mo Jupp, encouraged by Gwyn Hansen and inspired by John Reeves. Her first experience of making and firing with wood and salt glazing was with Gustave Tiffoche, in Guerande, France, the summer after her first year at Harrow. On her return to college along with a couple of other women students, she built her first wood-salt kiln. In 1975 she moved to Bentham, North Yorkshire, and set up her pottery making wood-fired salt-glazed tableware. Since 1987, she has been making pots on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales.
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