Janet Hamer Dodo Ceramic Pottery Hand-Made Dish Bowl
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This is a beautiful original hand made and hand decorated ceramic pottery dish bowl by Welsh potter "Janet Hamer", dating from the last 20 years. This is a beautiful piece from renowned potter Janet Hamer. This beautiful bowl has a wonderful biscuit glazed ground. The rim of the dish has a brown border, blending to blue, with circular blue border decoration to the inner rims. To the centre is a beautiful stylised hand-painted impression of a Dodo bird, partially glazed in light blue and brown/blue to the bird's body. This is a fabulous original and unusual piece from this talented artist from Wales. The bowl bears the impressed mark "JH" monogram to the base. JANET HAMER Welsh potter Janet has won First Prize for ceramics in the National Eisteddfod of Wales. She has found time for writing on ceramics including reviews published by Ceramic Review, Creft/Craft, and Shards. Janet and her husband Frank together wrote "Clays" for Pitman/Axner and have recently revised and expanded their book "The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques (5th Edition A&C Black). She takes students for specialized courses run their the studio. Janet has potted in the Czech Republic and Iceland and studied firing techniques and glazes in China. Janet regularly exhibits as a solo ceramic artist as well as with a group of potters. Most exhibitions are in England and Wales but she has also shown with other potters in Prague, Istanbul, Barcelona, Amsterdam and Stüttgart. Janet is also best known for her ceramic bird creations. This fabulous dish bowl is in excellent original condition, having no chips or cracks, and a fine collector's piece. The bowl measures a diameter of 10.25 inches (26cm), having a height of 2.5 inches (6.4cm). There is a slight mark to the inner surface where, at some period, a sticker has been placed, this of no real consquence, but worth mentioning. The successful bidder is to pay a handling/shipping charge. The handling charge covers postage, packing, shipping and Five Star Insurance. This charge is non-negotiable. We will reduce the handling charge for multiple purchases that can be shipped together. The handling charge does not apply if goods are collected directly from us. HANDLING CHARGES ON THIS ITEM  DESTINATION HANDLING CHARGE United Kingdom FREE  European Union (EEC) 40 GB POUNDS Rest of the World (inc USA) 60 GB POUNDS