Tall bottle, 2023. Wood-fired stoneware.
Lot 2

Halima Juma (b. 1980)

Tall bottle, 2023

Wood-fired stoneware

52 × 24 × 24 cm

Estimate KES 90,000–140,000

Bidding

Sold

KES 95,000

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

How bidding works

Bids · 12

  1. KES 95,000 Paddle 147 Online 13:03
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  6. KES 70,000 Paddle 234 Online 13:00
  7. KES 65,000 Paddle 129 Online 12:57
  8. KES 60,000 Paddle 487 Online 12:55
  9. KES 55,000 Paddle 386 Online 12:54
  10. KES 50,000 Paddle 335 Online 12:54
  11. KES 47,500 Paddle 487 Online 12:49
  12. KES 45,000 Paddle 492 Online 12:36

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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