4. 4AR HANS COPER (1920-1981) 'Thistle' form, circa 1969 Stoneware, layered porcelain slips and engobes over a textured and incised body, the interior with a manganese glaze H: 28,1cm. (11.1/16in.); L: 21,8cm. (8.9/16in.); W: 6,7cm. (2.5/8in.) Impressed with artist's seal Provenance Berkeley Galleries, London Eileen Young, London, acquired from the above, 1969 Galerie Besson, London Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited 'Peter Collingwood |Hans Coper: Rugs and wall-hangings by Peter Collingwood, Pots by Hans Coper', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 29 January-2 March 1969 'Hans Coper', Galerie Besson, London, 19 October-25 November 1988 Literature Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, exh. cat., Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 16 April-11 June 1967, p. 26 for a similar example Peter Collingwood|Hans Coper: Rugs and wall-hangings by Peter Collingwood, Pots by Hans Coper, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1969, illustrated fig. 21 O. Watson, Hans Coper, exh. cat., Galerie Besson, London, 1988, illustrated fig. 6 Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and their pupils: a selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence, Sainsbury Center for Visuals Arts, Norwich, 2 October-16 December 1990, p. 14, n. 7 for a similar example The essential potness, exh. cat, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 8 February-21 September 2014, p. 156, 157 for a similar example