Pair of bowls, 2024. Wood-fired stoneware.
Lot 8

Halima Juma (b. 1980)

Pair of bowls, 2024

Wood-fired stoneware

Each 12 × 28 cm

Estimate KES 60,000–90,000

Bidding

Sold

KES 60,000

Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.

How bidding works

Bids · 11

  1. KES 60,000 Paddle 472 Online 00:14
  2. KES 55,000 Paddle 427 Online 00:13
  3. KES 50,000 Paddle 134 Online 00:13
  4. KES 47,500 Paddle 129 Online 00:12
  5. KES 45,000 Paddle 315 Online 00:12
  6. KES 42,500 Paddle 290 Online 00:11
  7. KES 40,000 Paddle 386 Online 00:11
  8. KES 37,500 Paddle 200 Online 00:02
  9. KES 35,000 Paddle 114 Online 00:00
  10. KES 32,500 Paddle 152 Online 23:59
  11. KES 30,000 Paddle 268 Online 23:30

About the work

Two wide, shallow bowls fired side by side in the same kiln, so that the ash fell on each from the same direction: one carries a pool of green glaze at its centre, the other a ring of it around the rim.

Condition

Excellent.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist, 2024.

The artist

Juma throws stoneware vessels and fires them in a wood kiln she built near Kilifi, where the ash from three days of firing settles on the shoulders of the pots and runs into glaze. Her tall bottles and wide bowls carry the marks of where they sat in the kiln, and no two come out alike.

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