'SMOKED TEARDROP', A GROUP OF THREE UNIQUE VASES, 2016

Details

CHUMA MAWENI (B. 1976)
'SMOKED TEARDROP', A GROUP OF THREE UNIQUE VASES, 2016
glazed stoneware
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) high;
each signed CM Maweni 2016

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Lot Essay

Chuma Maweni is a ceramic artist with a studio in Woodstock, Cape Town. Smoked Teardrop Vases are lidded multi-purpose works of art and were fired straight in a pit giving them their unique look and strong smoky smell, following how Nguni tribes created ceramics for many years before him.

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