COLLECTABLE & FISHING AUCTION
Thursday, 27 - Monday, 31 August 2020
A large Carl Vendelbosch studio pottery vase
Current Bid $70 (5 bids, reserve met)
This lot is now closed 31 Aug 7:54 PM (NZST)
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Lot Details
decorated with resist panelled leaf pattern. H.295mm. Impressed potters mark to base. Note: Carl and Ellie Vendelbosch met at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at The Hague in 1948 after the difficult war years. Carl grew up in Leerdam, a village of glassblowers, where he was apprenticed to a master glassblower in 1936. He had some trouble with his left eye which limited his work options, so headed for Amsterdam where he found work with a glass instrument maker. He hid from the Germans for a year as they wanted him to make glass instruments in Germany. Eventually he studied sculpture at the Academy from 1942. Carl worked at Luke Adams Pottery , a Christchurch decorative ceramics manufacturer, where he renovated all of the company's old plaster moulds. In 1958, the family moved to Geraldine, where they built another pottery workshop at home. Ellie looked after their three children and Carl worked for Temuka Insulators, where he initially pressed insulators but then became involved in throwing large domestic. At the time, various people around New Zealand were experimenting with clay. In 1956, Yvonne Rust, a pottery enthusiast, organised a pottery summer school, with tutors including Carl, and Mirek Smisek. The visit of Japanese maestro, Shoji Hamada in 1965 was a highlight for the budding industry.....
