The ceramics of Hans Coper

[@WJHDetroit]

I wish they showed more vessels!!! Amazing artwork

[@badams4524]

I just love Han's work. I just missed out as I was a student in ceramics at the RCA in the late 80's , we used to go over the Lucy's mews house once a years for tea. i used to go to the V & A almost every day to look at one pot, a H C "bum" pot and loved it so much

[@richiejohnson]

How wonderful. I met Lucie at her mews studio. Utter simplicity.

[@jessicariosgomez4079]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@huyenaznguyenfamily]

Thanks you so much Have a good day

[@edstud1]

I would love to see some of Copers pots in life!

[@richiejohnson]

they're tiny. You'd think they were monumental

[@edstud1]

@@richiejohnson interesting isn't it?

[@richiejohnson]

@@edstud1 yep, I love the severity of them

[@edstud1]

@@richiejohnson have you tried replicating any of them?

[@richiejohnson]

@edstud1 Not directly. When I was younger, I had something of a reputation as a potter. He was inspirational.

[@HaroldStewart-tj7mo]

Hans has done very well considering Heber only taught him for 1 year he has done very well. Go Hans

[@markderv]

Pretty sure item six would not have been "fired in two separate sections.....and then joined together using knitting needles and glue" (???). This sounds to me like a classic example of Chinese whispers and here's why: "knitting" is the ceramics expression for connecting two pieces of typically leather hard (but sometimes wetter) clay pieces by first scratching into the surfaces to be joined with a sharp object and water to create a softer, slurried surface whereby the pieces can be joined in a seamless fashion, just as we see here. As a young ceramics student in the 1980's, I was experimenting with Coper-inspired pots and that is how I managed to produce similar pieces - obviously not with anything like the finesse and sheer enigmatic beauty of this master, but still relatively convincing to the layman.

[@廖宇軒-y1p]

Perfect !

[@icarus3797]

Wow!

[@廖宇軒-y1p]

Hownice it this. !

[@kerguelen_cabbage]

3:38 it's pronounced Portsmouth

[@richiejohnson]

Also, I think it's Loo-chee Ree, as in Lucia