BCSFA CGP
1871 - 1945
Canadian
Klee Wyck Bowl
painted ceramic
on verso signed Klee Wyck and inscribed indistinctly
5 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 in, 14 x 14 x 5.1 cm
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CAD
Sold for: $7,500
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Seahawk Auctions, Vancouver
Private Collection, USA
Emily Carr, to supplement her income, produced crafts such as hooked rugs and pottery. For the pottery, she used clay that she dug herself from locations such as Dallas Road in Victoria. In a homemade kiln in her back yard, she fired her hand-built clay objects, which included candlesticks, totems, bowls, pots and lamps. These single-fired objects were then painted with a variety of Indigenous motifs, such as the thunderbird motif that dominates this bowl. She signed her clay objects Klee Wyck, a name given to her by the Nuu-chah-nulth people of western Vancouver Island, which meant “Laughing One.”
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