£813
Folk & Fantasy: Property from The Thrie Estaits and the Collection of Alison & Angus Hill | 645
Auction: 10 December 2020 at 10:00 GMT
modelled as outstretched arms grasping torchères with pendant flames below, the moulded oval backplates with applied balls
Note: Oriel Harwood trained at Middlesex as a potter, and graduated in 1982, producing at her degree show a vivid primary-coloured glazed ceramic fireplace and glistening candelabra fashioned from serpents. A Crafts Council grant helped her set up a workshop in 1984, and she had her first one-woman show, Architectural Ceramics, at Burgh House, Hampstead, which announced her intention to blur the edges between architecture and applied art.