Designer
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Lindsay Muir
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Maker
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Lindsay Muir
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Marks
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Stamped “Norfolk Island”
Incised “Muir” in longhand to base
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Material
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Glazed earthenware
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Description
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Heavy glazed earthenware bowl
with curled “pigtail” handle fixed to top of outer rim. Matte glaze to body, unglazed flat
circular footring
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Condition
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Very good
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Number
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No number
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Production Date
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Late 1980s
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Width at rim
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132mm
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Width at Base
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65mm
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Depth
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42mm
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Length (with handle)
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160mm
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Weight
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390gm
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Volume
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375ml
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Acquisition
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Purchase
Salvos Store Bacchus Marsh, Victoria
11 Nov 2015.
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Rameking Reference Number
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MUI 001
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This ramekin was made by Lindsay Muir while he
was working at the Norfolk Island Pottery.
It is a typical example of a 1980s heavy earthenware ramekin. A prize-winning artist, Lindsay’s pottery is
now very collectable. Lindsay was born
in Stanthorpe, Queensland in 1964. He
majored in ceramics at the University of Southern Queensland, while completing
a Diploma of Visual Arts in 1984. His
work has been exhibited in galleries in both Australia and Japan. After
completing his Diploma, Lindsay worked at a number of different potteries,
including the Norfolk Pottery. Others
between 1985 and 1991 were the Flaxton Gardens Pottery and Green Frog Pottery.
Lindsay has said “Working with clay is a way of life
and without it I would not be who I am”
He managed a pottery in Lincolnshire for a year, an area where the Muir
family may have come from. He was
working on wheel thrown domestic ware.
He returned to Australia to begin working on the hyper realistic
ceramics he now makes. Hand-building
ceramics is his real passion. This
began at the Montville Pottery that ran from 1966 until 1998. Lindsay worked there in 1985, his wife Karen
ran the gallery. They moved to a new
location “Clay Illustrated” at Curramore Road Witta, a short distance from
Maleny in Queensland. Since 1991, he
has concentrated on the naturalistic pieces that are so popular today.
He has created naturalistic works and commissions for numerous parks
and wildlife organizations and his work has been featured on a number of
Australian television programmes. His
works have also been used as illustrations in children's books. The “Hollow Log Collection” successfully
sells his work also.
