The ceramics of Hans Coper

Charlie Park and Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, discuss the potter and artist Hans Coper. To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans Coper’s birth, the Ashmolean is devoting a display to an exhibition of Coper’s ceramics made across his career. The exhibition includes ceramics from the Museum’s own collection together with more than 30 loans from private collections. www.ashmolean....

[@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!

[@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.

[@huyenaznguyenfamily]

Thanks you so much Have a good day

[@HaroldStewart-tj7mo]

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

[@廖宇軒-y1p]

Perfect !

[@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.

[@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