Halima Juma (b. 1980)
Tall bottle, 2023
Wood-fired stoneware
52 × 24 × 24 cm
Estimate KES 90,000–140,000
Bidding
Sold
KES 80,000
Hammer price. Buyer's premium of 20% and VAT on the premium are added.
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About the work
A tall bottle with a narrow neck, fired for three days in Juma's wood kiln near Kilifi. Ash from the firing settled on the shoulder and ran down one side as a pale green glaze; the other side is bare, flashed orange by the flame.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2023.
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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