The ceramics of Hans Coper 

I wish they showed more vessels!!! Amazing artwork

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

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.

Thank you for sharing this!

Thanks you so much Have a good day

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

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

Perfect !

Wow!

Hownice it this. !

3:38 it's pronounced Portsmouth