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

Current bid

KES 42,500

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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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