NICOLA TASSIE (BRITISH 1960-) §
WEB, 2015
£2,016
Auction: MODERN MADE Part II | 01 November 2024 | Lots 80 to 444
Description
each impressed artist's seal, 26 pieces, Limoges porcelain with black iron oxide
Dimensions
the tallest 21.5cm high (8 ½in high)
Provenance
Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives, Collect 2015;
Property of a Private Aficionado.
Footnote
Web is a collection of twenty-six vessels precisely arranged on a table top, with taller jugs and jars occupying the centre and smaller mugs and bowls placed round the edges, the whole group resembling a cityscape. Black inlaid lines cut across the whole block, gradually intensifying in darkness towards the upper edge of the group to create a horizontal black strip that stretches across the pots, obliterating edges, rims, handles, styles, and looking like a band of cloud or rain hanging over a built environment. The vision of the group changes and mutates as it is viewed from different sides and angles. Individually the lines on the pots can simply be seen as decoration, with each pot having a functional value, but if used as an individual vessel, its removal would destroy the effect of the whole group or ceramic ‘landscape’. As such it can be seen as a meditation on the relation between function and form.