In our Wedgwood section we have just added an unusual piece of Keith Murray - a green apple shaped powder bowl and cover.
This piece is only 4.5″ in diamter and makes a rather unsual addition to a collection of Keith Murray items! Both the lid and base of the pot are fully marked with the Wedgwood and Keith Murray script marks.
The New Zealander Keith Murray brought fresh and contemporary designs to Wedgwood and is hugely collected toda
y. The smaller items such as the tankard are always a good starting point for collections. They were produced in such a wide range of colours and shapes they’re almost never ending!
If you’d rather start off with the bigger items then the Shoulder vase or Open Shoulder vase always make stunning additions. The Open Shoulder vase is shape number 3842 and stands an impressive 9.5″ tall.
Whichever shape or colour you decide to collect Keith Murray remains simple yet stylish and can be purely for display or indeed can be used as any household object if you should choose!
Keith Murray brought fresh, modern and contemporary designs to the Wedgwood pottery making it highly desirable today. Most sought after are the unsual shapes, the larger pieces and the rarer colours.
This black basalt Keith Murray bowl currently on eBay is certainly large and in one of the more collectable colours. The seller measures it as over 9″ in diameter and shows that it has the favoured red Keith Murray script mark to its base.
Whilst this seller does provide a couple of photographs showing the outside of the bowl there are none of the inside. Bowls are well known to be worn in the centre from being used so if you’re thinking about bidding it might be worth asking for an additional photograph or description of the condition of the inside, just to be sure.
Anyone with an interest in Art Deco ceramics might want to consider making a beeline for Stourbridge at the end of May.
Well-known Stourbridge auctioneer Fieldings is putting on an exhibition of work by designers such as Clarice Cliff, Keith Murray, Poole’s Carter, Stabler & Adams and Lenci at its auction house on Mill Race Lane from Thursday 29th May to midday on Saturday 31st May.
The exhibition has been planned to coincide with Fieldings hosting the first official Clarice Cliff Collectors Club auction ever to take place outside London - something of a coup for the auctioneer. The sale at Fieldings has nearly 300 lots and will begin at midday on Saturday 31st May, allowing plenty of time for anyone needing to travel to the auction.
Fieldings’ auctioneer Will Farmer will be known to many as one of the experts on the Antiques Roadshow. He’s excited about the exhibition and says: “It’s going to be a really rare exhibition, we’ve been building this for five months. Collectors will be coming from all over the country and everybody in Stourbridge can come and see this.”
The Clarice Cliff auction promises to be exciting too and it will be interesting to see how prices are holding up in the current market.
Full details of the Clarice Cliff sale catalogue will be available on Fieldings’ website nearer the time.