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Auction House:	Art+Object	Number of lots recorded:	143
Sale Title:	The Simon Manchester Collection of Len Castle Ceramics	Lots with images:	143
Auction Location:	Auckland	Prices available:	141
Date:	25-Feb-2016

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Len Castle, stoneware pouring flask, in oxide washed stoneware with green glaze interior, circa 1970, C mark, height 22 cm

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Len Castle, stoneware pouring flask, with applied medallion in iron oxide washed stoneware, circa 1980, LC mark, height 24 cm. Item number 75 from the Making the Molecules dance, page 8 of the catalogue. Provenance: Purchased from Len Castle.

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Len Castle, deep bowl, in brown and jun glazed stoneware with soapflake glaze effect to the well in lilac, 1995, LC mark, diameter 28 cm

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Len Castle, double necked orb vase, in heavily textured oxide washed stoneware, 1980s, LC mark, width 20 cm

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Len Castle, deep stoneware bowl, with rich colonial shino glaze, c1970's, C mark, diameter 28 cm

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Len Castle, stoneware branch pot, with castellated edges with pale green ash glaze and brown rim, circa 1960s, C mark, height 32 cm

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Len Castle, large hanging form, of paddle shape in grey stained white earthenware with heavily textured finish, circa 2000, LC mark, length 35 cm

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Len Castle, large hanging form, of paddle shape with heavily textured finish in grey stained white earthenware, circa 2000, LC mark, length 35 cm

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Len Castle, hanging form, in blue glazed stoneware, diameter 26 cm

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Len Castle, hanging form, of rectangular shape with radiating lines from the neck, gunmetal coloured stoneware. C 1997, LC mark. Provenance: Purchased from Len Castle's personal collection.

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Len Castle, early stoneware gourd form bottle vase, in white and brown glazed stoneware, rope indentations to the body, early 1960s, C mark, width 24 cm

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Len Castle, large stoneware brush pot, with heavily textured body in green and brown ash glazes with iron oxide wash, circa 1970's, C mark, height 32 cm

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Len Castle, stoneware brush pot, with heavily textured body in green and brown ash glazes with iron oxide wash, circa 1970s, C mark, height 25 cm

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Len Castle, small stoneware brush pot, with heavily textured body in green and brown ash glazes with iron oxide wash, circa 1970s, C mark, height 19 cm

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Len Castle, medium size brush pot, in rare shino glaze, 1980s, height 24 cm

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Len Castle, rare jug form brush pot, with heavily textured body in green and brown ash glazes, circa 1970s, C mark, height 25 cm

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Len Castle, planter pot, in colonial shino glaze with heavily scored body, circa 1970, rare early 1970s mark, diameter 23 cm

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Len Castle, stoneware planter, in green and brown ash glazes with heavily scored body, 1960s, C mark, diameter 21 cm

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Len Castle, circular platter, in colonial shino with scored lines radiating from the centre, circa 1970s, diameter 32 cm

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Len Castle, circular platter, in colonial shino with combed decoration to the well, circa 1970s, diameter 31 cm. The decoration on this platter was created using an antique samurai comb that Len Castle was given when he was in Japan.

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Len Castle, cylindrical stoneware vase, in heavily textured iron oxide washed stoneware with dark green ash glaze interior, 1960s, C mark, height 19 cm

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Len Castle/ Theo Schoon, a collaborative piece designed in the mid-1950s, Len Castle made this form infrequently over the years. This piece was made in the mid-1990s in colonial shino. Len Castle has retained Schoon's stamp which he used on this piece to denote the collaboration, circa 1996, LC mark and Theo Schoon mark. Reference: Len Castle Potter, Ron sang, 2002, page 177.

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Len Castle, double aperture sedge grass holder, in umber stained stoneware, circa 1990s, LC mark, height 17 cm

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Len Castle, early single aperture sedge grass holder, in iron oxide washed stoneware, circa 1960s, C mark, height 17 cm

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Len Castle, tall conical flask, in colonial shino with green/grey interior glaze, height 28 cm

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Len Castle, heavily textured stoneware bowl, with ishihaze quartz pebble effect in green ash glaze with pooling green glaze to the well, circa 1960s, C mark, diameter 24 cm

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Len Castle, stoneware platter, in colonial shino and brown glazes with wax resist double falcon modernist motif in tenmoku glaze, 1970s, diameter 40 cm. Len Castle was fascinated by his boyhood sighting of a native falcon and used falcon heads widely in this work. This is a rare example.

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Len Castle, ovoid stoneware vase, with fire symbol motif in green/grey ash glazes with, 1960s, C mark, height 23 cm

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Len Castle, winged form, in rich burnt sienna oxide washed stoneware, LC mark, width 34 cm. A similar example illustrated on the cover of Making the Molecules dance, Len Castle Ceramics, a retrospective exhibition 1947-1994.

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